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Jul 16, 2017 · War-torn, humiliated, and unstable, Italian society and culture lay in disarray. Art, and cinema in particular, was no exception – Mussolini’s Cinecitta studios had been heavily damaged during the war, leading to the loss of commercial Italian cinema’s focal point.
Jun 5, 2023 · Italian neorealism was a film movement that emerged in Italy towards the end of the Second World War. Precipitated by the fall of Mussolini’s fascist government, Italian neorealism was an expression of what cinema could do without the censorship of the regime and the control of the big production studios.
- A Moral Authority
- Filming The Real
- Men, Women & Crimes of Passion
- Death, and Right Away
- The Opening of Doors
Prior to Ossessione, Visconti, a member of a prominent noble family of Milan, had worked as the assistant director on a couple of Jean Renoir pictures, a connection having been made through mutual friend Coco Chanel. The move to directing his own movies was a natural progression. Yet it would not be without its challenges, namely the interventions ...
Share Share on PinterestShare on FacebookShare on Twitter Visconti first came across The Postman Always Rings Twice when Renoir give him a French translation of the book. It has been said that“the project united his aesthetic, ideological and stylistic ambitions with concrete melodramatic foundations, all within a solidly recognisable socio-cultura...
The typical Film Noir protagonist was typically male, at odds with the world, at a low ebb but with a curiously righteous moral code that exerts itself sometimes against his will. Author Raymond Chandler described his great creation private detective Philip Marlowe as a “shop-soiled Sir Galahad” and that seems about right. Women, on the other hand,...
Whereas a Film Noir (quite rightfully for the genre) would revel and wallow in the dirty details of the scheming and the execution, Ossessione is much more subtle in its execution, as if the murder is more just the by-product of the complex power relationships between the protagonists, rather than a living, breathing entity in itself. There is no g...
Two great film genres, two different cinematic approaches. But what Ossessione proves is not only the worthiness of the hard-boiled, pulp crime novel as a template for complex, psychologically driven explorations of human relationships, but that such explorations did not and do not have to conform to the standard generic conventions of the typical ...
Nov 5, 2020 · So, the aim of this special issue reflects the critical move of remapping the noir canon from a transnational and transcultural perspective by locating not an overarching Italian film noir but the presence of film noir in Italian cinema through time and space.
- Marco Paoli, Barbara Pezzotti
- 2020
Aug 6, 2013 · Italian noir? Who better to ask for an overview this unique strand of European crime fiction than the expert Omar Gatti, who edits the wonderful website Noir Italiano? We invited him to write a feature explaining Italian noir, so that English-speaking crime fiction lovers can get an authentic eye on where to start…
The term “film noir,” meaning “black film” or “dark film” in French, was coined by French critics in the post-World War II era, who observed the appearance of American crime dramas with similar shadowy visuals and themes of moral ambiguity.
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Dec 27, 2010 · Italy's authors reveal how they are using noir crime novels to highlight the world of corrupt politicians, Mafiosi, unsolved murders and official cover-ups.
