ITA240Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: The Icicle Thief, Hair Spray, Point-Of-View Shot
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The film is not a parody, but an act of love devoted to neo-realism in italian cinema. before hand: back to the studio, now were in the film their showing, which is the present film. Maurizio nichetti, 1989: english translation: the icicle thief, highly post modern film, that contains a lot of citations and games, very playful take on italian neorealism. It both celebrates and land pones italian neorealism. Do you believe in movies?, who got time for movies? : the neorealism is from a lofty filmmaker who remakes neorealism at a time when neorealism is really not necessary the late 1980s in italy. If we set that aside, we can see the effort that went into producing these little short films that would have a commercial tied to that time: established an iconography of what commercials mean in italian cultural.
