Italian Neorealist Cinema : An Aesthetic Approach.

Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Overview -- The Italian Cinema Industry -- The Cultural Context -- Films: Production and Screenwriting -- The Pro-filmic -- The Institution of Neorealism -- 2 Realism -- Aesthetics -- Reference -- Narrative -- Genre -- Idealism -- Realism -- Cesare Zavattini -- Rhetoric -- A Note on Comedy -- 3 Roma città aperta -- Photography -- Lighting -- Sound -- Mise en scène -- Performers -- Costume -- The Narrative: Story and Plot -- Dramaturgy: Analysis of the Episode of the Shooting of Pina -- Roma città aperta and Neorealism -- 4 Paisà -- The Rome Episode -- The Sicily Episode -- The Monastery Episode -- The Naples Episode -- The Florence Episode -- The Po delta Episode -- Concluding Remarks on Paisà -- 5 Ladri di biciclette -- Locations -- Performers and Costume -- Narrative -- Analysis of Sequences -- Concluding Remarks -- Concluding Remarks -- Appendices -- 1 A standard introduction to neorealism -- 2 Historical background for neorealism -- 3 Statistics of the Italian film industry -- 4 Categories of cinema in Italy, 1953 -- 5 Number of tickets sold at cinema box offices in provincial capitals and in the rest of the provinces, 1947-1955 -- 6 Length (in days) of opening runs in cinemas in major Italian cities of neorealist films and Catene -- 7 Statistics of days of cinema showing, tickets sold, and box-office receipts in Italy, 1936-1960 -- 8 Established film production companies in Italy, 1945-1953 -- 9 Italian film production, 1945-1953 -- 10 Directors of neorealist films, 1945-1953 -- 11 Writers of neorealist films, 1945-1953 -- 12 Directors of photography on neorealist films -- 13 Production arrangements and costs for five core neorealist films -- 14 Italian public's reception of different categories of Italian films produced 1945-1953, and subsequently released 1945-1956.

15 Fifty-five 'neorealist' films -- 16 Filmographic details of Roma città aperta, Paisà, and Ladri di biciclette -- 17 Average shot length, pre-neorealism and neorealism -- 18 Average shot length, neorealist films -- 19 Average shot length, neorealist films of De Sica, Rossellini, Visconti, Antonioni -- 20 Scale (closeness) of shot comparison, Roma città aperta and other films (1) -- 21 Scale of shot comparison, Roma città aperta and other films (2) -- 22 Scale of shot comparison, Roma città aperta and other films (3) -- 23 Map of settings and locations for Paisà -- 24 Average shot length for different sections of Paisà -- 25 Scale of shot, Paisà - Po delta episode -- 26 Tammurriata nera -- 27 Map of locations for Ladri di biciclette -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Plates.