Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of figures vi
4. Acknowledgments viii
5. Traditions in World Cinema x
6. 1. A moment and a country 1
7. 2. Realism and neorealism 33
8. 3. Literary neorealism: narration and testimony 62
9. 4. Rossellini’s cities of war and resistance 91
10. 5. Wandering among De Sica’s urbanites: shoeshiners, bicycle thieves, miraculous outcasts and a man with a dog 123
11. 6. Visconti’s worlds of aestheticism and ideology: between tradition and invention, from country to city 146
12. 7. Faces and spaces of neorealism: from dystopian cities to utopian countries 169
13. 8. The journey beyond neorealism: streetwalkers, political rebels, antimafi a resisters, stolen children and unwanted citizens 193
14. Filmography 219
15. Bibliography 222
16. Index 233