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Film studies

The academic discipline that deals with various theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to films.

Contributors in Film studies

Film studies

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 ...

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