CIN 2101 Study Guide - Hookend Recording Studios, Bitter Rice, Existential Crisis

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Film Studies
• Course: CIN 2101
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Spent the first part of class handing out the tests. The type of realism that we still kind of understand nowadays. After the second world war, most western countries began to question themselves existential crisis. Artists and such began to question to place and the role that people can play in every day life. What makes us human after what we did to ourselves after the war? (concentration camps) Italy was close to germany during the war, and they started to question the role they played. Their film industry was active before, and italy was in very bad shape, and the film places in. The ideology and some specific economic and conditions encouraged people to create a new type of realism, italian neo-realism. Main goal was to stay away from hollywood, super heros, etc. They wanted to create a new type of protagonist and heros an everyday hero.