Roberto Rossellini

Peter Brunette

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9780520359376
• eBook ISBN: 9780520312852
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film & Video

This is the first full-length study in any language of the most significant film director of Italian Neorealism. Peter Brunette combines close analyses of Roberto Rossellini's formal and narrative style with a thorough account of his position in the political and cultural landscape of postwar Italy. More than forty films are explored, including Open City, Paisan, Voyage to Italy, The Rise to Power of Louis XIV, and films made in the director's later years that documented crucial epochs in human history.Brunette's book is based on eight years of research, during which he interviewed members of the director's family as well as Rossellini himself. Brunette also draws on an enormous body of European and American criticism and discusses the various intellectual debates spawned by the director's work. This landmark study is both a comprehensive introduction to one of the most influential practitioners of the contemporary cinema and a boldly original discussion of Italian Neorealism.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Early Film Projects
• La Nave Bianca (1941)
• Un Pilota Ritorna (1942)
• L’Uomo dalla Croce (1943)
• Desiderio—A Special Case (1943-46)
• Open City (1945)
• Paisan (1946)
• Germany, Year Zero (1947)
• Una Voce Umana (1947—48)
• The Miracle (1948)
• La Macchina Ammazzacattivi (1948—52)
• Stromboli (1949)
• Francesco, Giullare di Dio (1950)
• Europa ’51 (1952)
• Dov'è la Libertà? (1952—54)
• Voyage to Italy (1953)
• Three Sketches: “L’Invidia,” “Ingrid Bergman,” and “Napoli ’43” (1951—54)
• Giovanna d’Arco al Rogo (1954)
• Fear (1954—55)
• India (1958)
• General della Rovere (1959)
• Era Notte a Roma (1960)
• Viva l’Italia! (1960)
• Vanina Vanini (1961)
• Anima Nera (1962)
• “Illibatezza” (1962)
• Introduction to the History Films
• L’Età del Ferro (1964)
• La Lotta dell'Uomo per la Sua Sopravvivenza (1964—70)
• La Prise de Pouvoir par Louis XIV (1966)
• Acts of the Apostles (1969)
• Socrates (1970)
• Blaise Pascal (1972)
• Augustine of Hippo (1972)
• The Age of the Medici (1972)
• Cartesius (1974)
• Anno Uno (1974)
• The Messiah (1975)
• Final Projects (1975—77)
• Notes
• Filmography
• Index