Rome Open City : Roma Citta Aperta (Bfi Film Classics Distributed for the British Film Institute)

Forgacs, David

British Film Inst（2000/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 79 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780851708041
• DDC分類 791.4372

Full Description

Otto Preminger said the history of the cinema was divided into two eras: one before and one after Rome Open City (Roma Città Aperta, 1945). The film is based on events that took place in Rome in 1944, during the Nazi occupation. This book re-examines the film and its place in Rossellini's career. David Forgacs reconstructs its production history, its relationship to the events that inspired it and the time in which it was made. He argues that the traditional critical labelling of Rome Open City as the original work of neo-realism fails to capture the film's hybrid and contradictory character. Part documentary record, part patriotic myth, Rome Open City is at once an extraordinarily powerful commemoration of wartime experience and a rhetorical reworking of that experience, using stereotypes and moral polarisations.

Contents

Acknowledgments
'Rome Open City'
Notes
Credits
Bibliography