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Recognized as a master of Italian cinema, Vittorio De Sica is perhaps best known and most respected for his critically acclaimed neorealist films of the period 1946–55. This anthology reveals, however, that his production was remarkably multifaceted.
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- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Film Documentation and Photographs
- Introduction
- De Sica on De Sica
- Some Ideas on the Cinema
- De Sica: Metteur en Scene
- Umberto D. and Realism
- Beyond the Movement-Image
- Ideological Continuity and Cultural Coherence
- Remembrance of Things Past
- On a Train to the Kingdom of Earth: Watching De Sica’s Children
- Shoeshine
- The Art of Shoeshine
- Holding Hands with a Bicycle Thief
- Bicycle Thieves: A Re-reading
- Neorealist Aesthetics and the Fantastic: The Machine to Kill Bad People and Miracle in Milan
- Appendix: Reflections on Miracle in Milan
- Miracle in Milan: Some Psychoanalytic Notes on a Movie
- Pius Aeneas and Totò, il buono: The Founding Myth of the Divine City
- Umberto D.: Vittorio De Sica’s ‚Super‘-Naturalism
- The Subversive Potential of the Pseudo-Iterative
- A Home in the Ditch of Saint Agnes: De Sica’s The Roof
- The Case of De Sica
- Hiding in the Light: De Sica’s Work in the 19605
- In Love and War: Vittorio De Sica’s Two Women
- De Sica’s Garden of the Finzi-Continis: An Escapist Paradise Lost
- The Magic Mountain
- Filmography