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Neo-realism is a cultural movement that brings elements of true life in the stories it describes, rather than a world mainly existing in imagination only.

Umberto Barbaro1902 - 1959

Italian film critic and essayist. He coins term “Neorealism” describing new approach to cinema.

•Used non-semi-professional actors•Used authentic settings•Stories rooted in Italian social reality•Used spare unadorned camera techniques•Camera set-ups tended to be functional and basic•Lighting very spare and unadorned

•Avoided high contrast and low-key lighting popular in Hollywood Classical style•Editing was restrained – avoided montage- Viewed as manipulative to viewer•Unrealistic structural device

•Neorealism preferred location shooting rather than studio work, as well as the grainy kind of photography associated with documentary newsreels.•Neorealist directors shunned them primarily because they wanted to show what was going on in the streets and piazzas of Italy immediately after the war.

Neorealism is a film movement often considered to have started in 1943 with Ossessione and ended in 1952 with Umberto D.