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Before the end of World War II and the fall of

Mussolini's Fascist regime a different genre of Italian

cinema called Neorealism emerged. The movement

began in 1942 and went on in the 50s

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Neorealism cinematic realism with

social, political, and economic themes. Films

often took a highly critical view of Italian

society and focused attention upon glaring

social problems, such as the effects of the

Resistance and the war, poverty,

unemployment, friendship and love.

Topical scripts inspired by concrete evens,

Common people are the protagonists.

Actors are often nonprofessionals. As for the

technics there is a massive use of free camera.

Filmed in black and white the films have a

haunting quality, with deep shadows and sharp

edges echoing not only the harshness of life

during the post-war years, but the emotions of

the characters themselves.

La grande guerra

Monicelli 1959

Le notti di Cabiria

Fellini 1957 PASSAGGI at Barcelona Avril 2013 - Grundtvig


Bellissima

Visconti 1951

Accattone

Pasolini 1961

• Cronaca di un'amore - Antonioni 1950

• Miracolo a Milano - De Sica 1951

• Pane amore e fantasia - Comencini 1953

• La spiaggia - Lattuada 1953

• Poveri ma belli Risi 1956

• Le notti di Cabiria - Fellini 1957

• I soliti ignoti - Monicelli 1958

• La grande guerra - Monicelli 1959



Eduardo De Filippo

Playwriter performing the effect of misery in

Naples that he simbolized « il mestiere di

vivere» (the business for getting a living) and

«adda finì a nuttata» (night must go to an end).

Dario Fo

a comedist representing a more political view

of life, social contranst utilizing paradox, his

best work: Mistero Buffo. He received the

nobel prize for literature, in 1997.



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La Festa del Mare



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*A prominent political, social activist, Renato Guttuso was a

member of the partisan resistance movement.

*He is an undisputed master of neorealist painting. His

paintings are always socially relevant.



*Guttuso was an extraordinary

witness of his age. In his art works

he was a master in describing the

human condition of people in the

50s, its pains, myths and passions.

He was a passionate artist who

took part to political and cultural

discussions in the Italy from the 40s

to the 80s



*Guttuso was a

rebel artist

motivated by a

strong sense of

social

responsibility. His

political beliefs

are apparent in

both the subject

matter and

expressive style of

his canvases,

which often

exposed social

injustice.



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Piano Ina casa

FUNCTIONALISM

Functionalism, in

architecture, is the

principle that

architects should

design a building

based on the purpose

of that building.

Functionalism in architecture can

never be pure functionalism.

'The absolute rejection of style, becomes itself a form of style'. Philosopher Adorno concludes

Functionalism considered

families, schools and other

social entities as cogs in a

machine.

Each part contributes to the

functioning of the system as

a whole.

Their collective utopia

rejected "elegant"

architecture as bourgeois.



Post war dwellings

INA casa or Case Popolari

(council houses)



*The emblematic date of ‘1956’ (the riot

and invasion of Soviet in Hungary) is seen

as the commencement of a new period

in Italian literary history. The very rapid

expansion of the Italian economy in the

‘boom years’ (1958–63), the new levels

of prosperity and choice, and the effect

which these had on the social and

material conditions of literature.

Two main factors affected these changes:

- the extension of educational and

cultural opportunities to a larger

number of people;

- the insertion of publishing in a complex

web of ‘cultural industries’.

Il conformista, 1951

Il disprezzo, 1954

La ciociara, 1957

La noia, 1960



http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_conformista_(romanzo)

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951

http://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Il_disprezzo_(Moravia)&action=edit&redlink=1


http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Moravia_(opere_e_poetica)


http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_noia_(romanzo)


*Magazines, comics,

reviews easily show

the thirst for innovative

languages, inspired by

the new trends and

new readers.



*At the end of the Second World War, when Allied troupes occupied Italy people became fans of the rhythm and of the musical trends from across the Atlantic Ocean. They used to dance in the streets boogie boogie, intoning new songs.

One of the most important events

in the history of Italian pop music

is the creation in 1951 of

the Festival della canzone

italiana Festival di San

Remo. This song contest, is held

annually, it became so famous in

Europe that it even inspired the

Eurovision Song Contest. Sanremo

Music Festival is still running today



*Television

Il Musichiere

Lascia o raddoppia

Carosello

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