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Film studies
The academic discipline that deals with various theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to films.
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Centro Sperimentale
Cinema; Film studies
Centro Sperimentale is Mussolini's state-subsidized film school where film directors learned to make films in the well-equipped studios that Mussolini fostered (a complex called the Cinecittà). ...
Italian neorealism stylistic elements
Cinema; Film studies
The most obvious way neorealist films differed from their predecessors was that neorealist films were shot on location. A second way neorealist films differed from their predecessors was in their use of ...
The Bicycle Thief
Cinema; Film studies
The Bicycle Thieves (Italian: Ladri di biciclette), also known as The Bicycle Thief, is a 1948 Italian neorealist film directed by Vittorio De Sica. Set right after the end of World War II, it ...
Vittorio De Sica
Cinema; Film studies
In 1940 De Sica acts as director after having grabbed all the secrets of the set. His first films were Red Roses (1940), Maddalena Zero for Conduct (1940), Doctor Beware (1941) and A Garibaldian in ...
New York Film School
Cinema; Film studies
It is the Independent American cinema of the fifties, also known as the New York Film School that with its techniques, and choice of themes influenced other film styles, especially the French New ...
Luchino Visconti
Cinema; Film studies
Luchino Visconti was an Italian theatre, opera and cinema director, as well as a screenwriter. He began his filmmaking career as an assistant director on Jean Renoir's Toni (1935) and Partie de ...
Anna Magnani
Cinema; Film studies
Anna Magnani was an Italian actress born in Rome in 1908. Her first role in neorealist films was in Rossellini's Rome, Open City, where she gave a brilliant performance. She had other collaborations ...
