Rome Open City (Roma Città Aperta)

Rome Open City (Roma Città Aperta)
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 113
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ISBN-10 : 9781838717889
ISBN-13 : 1838717889
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Book Synopsis Rome Open City (Roma Città Aperta) by : David Forgacs

Download or read book Rome Open City (Roma Città Aperta) written by David Forgacs and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Otto Preminger said the history of the cinema was divided into two eras: one before and one after Rome Open City (Roma Città Aperta, 1945). The film is based on events that took place in Rome in 1944, during the Nazi occupation. This book re-examines the film and its place in Rossellini's career. David Forgacs reconstructs its production history, its relationship to the events that inspired it and the time in which it was made. He argues that the traditional critical labelling of Rome Open City as the original work of neo-realism fails to capture the film's hybrid and contradictory character. Part documentary record, part patriotic myth, Rome Open City is at once an extraordinarily powerful commemoration of wartime experience and a rhetorical reworking of that experience, using stereotypes and moral polarisations.


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