Neorealism

Word NEOREALISM
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What do we mean by neorealism?

A movement in art, literature and (especially in Italy) cinema, shortly after the Second World War, that concentrated on real life.

A theory of international relations based on the idea that power is the most important factor.

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The word "neorealism" in example sentences

Although Italian director Luchino Visconti was a pioneer of the grungy, grit-and-all filmmaking style called neorealism, he also loved all things grand and operatic. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For more than 60 years, she brought intellect, sophistication and a lightness of touch to its key genres such as neorealism, while working with directors such as Federico Fellini, ❋ Unknown (2010)

"In the early 1950s, Italian cinema was turning away from the politically charged movement known as neorealism, with its harsh, documentary-like depiction of daily life. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Even most forms of neorealism don't put much emphasis on plot -- writers having sensibly concluded there's no point in competing with movies for the slam-bang scenario -- and what would be the point of laboriously describing in a synopsis the details of character and setting that the reader simply has to encounter in the finished work? ❋ Unknown (2010)

There is perhaps no film to rival the humanism and clarity of purpose of Rossellini's neorealism masterpiece, which documents the Nazi occupation of Rome and the bravery of the Italian resistance. ❋ Cath Clarke (2010)

Although he produced some light comedies in the early 1940s, Carlo Ponti's reputation as a producer fortuitously coincided with the rise of Italian neorealism from 1943 to 1950 .... ❋ Unknown (2007)

I've always associated Roberto Rossellini with neorealism so it's a shock for me to discover The Taking Of Power By Louis XIV ($29.95; Criterion) and Rossellini's History Films: Renaissance and Enlightenment ($59.95; Eclipse). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Comencini was best known for his 1953 hit, Bread, Love and Dreams, starring Gina Lollobrigida and Vittorio De Sica, a film that spawned two sequels and helped turned the page on Italy's neorealism movement. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I'm not convinced that cinema--let alone animated cinema--is truly, or of necessity, a narrative form; certainly the surrealists challenged that notion since Bunuel gave us Un Chien Andalou, and "pure cinema" advocates like the auteurs of the French New Wave and Italian neorealism certainly took some of those experiential notions and ran with them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When I was making my first movies, I was fascinated by Italian neorealism. ❋ Unknown (2008)

(Even minimalism and contemporary neorealism seem blanched and attenuated in comparison to the novels of Hardy or Dickens or Steinbeck.) ❋ Unknown (2006)

He came in at the tail end of neorealism, as a disciple of Pasolini. ❋ Unknown (2006)

While Brakhage later eschewed narrative and, eventually, even representation, these early films betray the influence of neorealism and the French poet/filmmaker Jean Cocteau. ❋ Ed Howard (2007)

The film's story is told in a blend of expressionism and neorealism, with the latter pointing back to Bergman's earliest dramas and the former pointing ahead to the direction his films would take from then on. ❋ Ed Howard (2007)

These stories are influenced not so much by magic realism as the Italian postwar cinematic movement, neorealism. ❋ Tim Stretton (2007)

In literature, neorealism and its shape-shifting sister magic realism unseat Beckett's minimalism, which had unseated Joyce's maximalism, which had unseated the conventional novel, which had unseated the epic poem. ❋ Unknown (2007)

If it rains, there are films: a Claudia Cardinale retrospective, Martin Scorsese's documentary about Italian neorealism and a classic documentary on Picasso by Luciano Emmer, the noted Italian director. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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