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Film studies
The academic discipline that deals with various theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to films.
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independent film
Cinema; Film studies
Small independent, low-budget companies, mini-majors, or entities for financing, producing, and distributing films working outside of the system or a major Hollywood studio, often with groundbreaking ...
Roberto Rossellini
Cinema; Film studies
Roberto Rossellini was born in Rome in 1906. Before he entered "the neorealism world" he worked as art-director and editor, and subsequently as scriptwriter and director of documentaries. His film ...
The Children Are Watching Us
Cinema; Film studies
The Children Are Watching Us (Italian:I bambini ci guardano) is De Sica's first collaboration with Cesare Zavattini, and a kind of precursor of neorealism made in 1943. A young boy named Pricò and ...
Shoeshine
Cinema; Film studies
Shoeshine/ Italian:Sciuscia' ( Vittorio de Sica) is the first wholly neorealistic picture but it was a commercial disaster. Film critics judged it negatively because of the difficulty in ...
Cesare Zavattini
Cinema; Film studies
Cesare Zavatiini was born in Luzzara in 1902. He originally started as scriptwriter, screenwriter, and writer. His first collaboration with Vittorio De Sica will mark his cinematic route and ...
Federico Fellini
Cinema; Film studies
Federico Fellini was one of the most influential filmmakers. He has remarkable and unique style of filming. His films usually consists of memory, fantasy and desire. His way of depicting man's most ...
Italian neorealism
Cinema; Film studies
When talking about the phenomenon called the Italian neorealism it is not easy to define it in one sentence. It was in fact a movement of ideas that dominated in the 40s of 19th century. It can also ...
