Vittorio De Sica : contemporary perspectives / edited by Howard Curle and Stephen Snyder.

Includes bibliographical references and filmography.

De Sica on De Sica -- Some ideas on the cinema / Cesare Zavattini -- De Sica : metteur en scène / André Bazin -- Umberto D. and realism / Gilberto Perez -- Beyond the movement image / Gilles Deleuze -- Ideological continuity and cultural coherence / Philip V. Cannistraro -- Remembrance of things past / Marcia Landy -- On a train to the kingdom of Earth : watching De Sica's children / George Toles -- Shoeshine / Pauline Kael -- The art of Shoeshine / Bert Cardullo -- Holding hands with a bicycle thief / Mark West -- Bicycle thieves : a re-reading / Frank P. Tomasulo -- Neorealist aesthetics and the fantastic : the machine to kill bad people and Miracle in Milan / Peter Bondanella -- Appendix : Reflections on Miracle in Milan / Claude Roy -- Miracle in Milan : some psychoanalytic notes on a movie / Alexander Grinstein -- Pius Aeneas and Totò, il buono : the founding myth of the divine city / Hart Wegner -- Umberto D. : Vittorio De Sica's 'super'-naturalism / Vernon Young -- The subversive potential of the pseudo-iterative / Marsha Kinder -- A home in the ditch of Saint Agnes : De Sica's The roof / Howard Curle -- The case of De Sica / James Price -- Hiding in the light : De Sica's work in the 1960s / Stephen Snyder -- In love and war : Vittorio De Sica's Two women / Faye McIntyre -- De Sica's Garden of the Finzi-Continis : an escapist Paradise lost / Millicent Marcus -- The magic mountain / Colin Westerbeck.

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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. As this anthology reveals, however, his production was remarkably multifaceted. The essays included here - some newly commissioned, some reprinted, and others in translation - look at De Sica's varied career from many perspecives. Structured chronologically, the volume begins by introducing readers to De Sica's early popularity as an actor and singer during the years of Italian Fascism, and to his initial directorial efforts before the end of World War II. It was not until the postwar era, however, that De Sica made his mark in film history. Special attention is given to this critical phase of his career, which encompasses the neorealist films that made him famous: "Shoeshine", "Bicycle Thieves", "Miracle in Milan", and "Umberto D."When the neorealist movement waned after 1955, De Sica returned to his roots in Neapolitan comedy for a series of commercially successful films starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. Memorable works from this period include "Two Women" and "Marriage Italian Style" as well as "Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow", which won De Sica an Academy Award in 1965. In one of his final films, "The Garden of the Finzi Continis", he returned to the subject of World War II and to the human tragedy characteristic of his best neorealist productions. This fine anthology offers a comprehensive critical survey that covers the entire scope of De Sica's career, and is an excellent resource for students, critics and film enthusiasts.

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