Vittorio De Sica
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Vittorio De Sica

Contemporary Perspectives

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  2. English
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Vittorio De Sica

Contemporary Perspectives

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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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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. A Note on Film Documentation and Photographs
  4. Introduction
  5. De Sica on De Sica
  6. Some Ideas on the Cinema
  7. De Sica: Metteur en Scene
  8. Umberto D. and Realism
  9. Beyond the Movement-Image
  10. Ideological Continuity and Cultural Coherence
  11. Remembrance of Things Past
  12. On a Train to the Kingdom of Earth: Watching De Sica’s Children
  13. Shoeshine
  14. The Art of Shoeshine
  15. Holding Hands with a Bicycle Thief
  16. Bicycle Thieves: A Re-reading
  17. Neorealist Aesthetics and the Fantastic: The Machine to Kill Bad People and Miracle in Milan
  18. Appendix: Reflections on Miracle in Milan
  19. Miracle in Milan: Some Psychoanalytic Notes on a Movie
  20. Pius Aeneas and Totò, il buono: The Founding Myth of the Divine City
  21. Umberto D.: Vittorio De Sica’s ‚Super‘-Naturalism
  22. The Subversive Potential of the Pseudo-Iterative
  23. A Home in the Ditch of Saint Agnes: De Sica’s The Roof
  24. The Case of De Sica
  25. Hiding in the Light: De Sica’s Work in the 19605
  26. In Love and War: Vittorio De Sica’s Two Women
  27. De Sica’s Garden of the Finzi-Continis: An Escapist Paradise Lost
  28. The Magic Mountain
  29. Filmography