Film Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Semiotics

• School: Western University
• Department: Film Studies
• Course: Film Studies 1020E
• Professor: Hugh Henry

Document Summary

Italian neorealism is essentially a perfect representation of bazins ideas of the fidelity of cinema as absolute truth: post war italy little access to film production, ability to reflect on what"s just happened looking at the past, present, future, reflecting social realities realistic representation of life, people, politics, etc, new techniques on location shotting, handheld camera work, non professional actors, unrestrained reality working in real time, superfluous events, de sica a sence of the real through the poetic language of cinema representation vs. reality, umberto begins the film as a speck in the ground a part of a larger picture tragic character but not unique, a definite social context, a sense of historical actuality and immediacy, political commitment to progressive social change, authentic on location shooting as opposed to the articicial studio, a rejection of classical hollywood acting styles; extensive use of non professional actors as much as possible, a documentary style of cinematography.