Abstract
Focusing with special intensity on scenes that feature still photographs in the Italian films Blow-Up, Three Brothers, and The One Hundred Steps, this paper traces a progressive return to the neorealist call for a cinema of truth-telling on the threshold on the new millennium.
Published Online: 2011-03-17
Published in Print: 2011-February
© 2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/New York
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Keywords for this article
Neorealism;
historicity referentiality;
Metz montage;
Italian cinema
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