...Alessia Ricciardi Copyright © 2006 The Trustees of Columbia University 2006 Alessia Ricciardi THE ITALIAN REDEMPTION OF CINEMA: NEOREALISM FROM BAZIN TO GODARD I n 1952, the Parisian journal Films et Documents codified the "ten points of neorealism" and, with this definitive gesture...

... and the necessity of a cultural responsibility for violence. Alessia Ricciardi's reflection on neorealism, and on Italian resistance to French critics' depiction of it as an epistemological and ontological turning point, also foregrounds the limits as well as the fruitfulness of a creative reconstruction...

... reconstruction and experimental narrative. Well-recognized authors are evoked in terms of their most unexpected characteristics: Beppe Fenoglio shows a touch of popular cinematography, and Cesare Pavese's "best work was substantially shaped by a poetics that both predates neorealism and renders it problematic...

... of Cinema: Neorealism from Bazin to Godard," 483-500 Roustang-Stoller, Eve-Alice, La Renaissance et la nuit, (Daniel Menager), 255-6 Samuels, Maurice, "Metaphors of Modernity: Prostitutes, Bankers, and Other Jews in Balzac's Splendeurs et miseres des courtisanes," 169-84 Santos, Jose, Batailles d'ecrivains...

..., and monologue interieur, whereby the reader becomes an audience member who actively participates in the reading. Schwob renews the rules of the novel genre by incorporating elements of the fairy tale and by creating a neorealism, which takes the form of a higher, fantastic, impressionistic realism. For Gide...

...), and Desnos's L'Amour ou la liberte (1927). 8. Somewhere in Paris appeared in L'Art vivant 111 (Aug. 1929) and in Photo-Graphie 1 (1930). Images of laundry flapping in the wind, a staple of postwar European art cinema starting with Italian neorealism, recall sequences in Agnes Varda's 1954 directorial debut, La...

... open paths to narrative, in a movement both real and emotional, in the relationship between image and text. The map incarnates a narrative 1. Inaugural in this line of interpretation is Lucia Re's text, Calvino and the Age of Neorealism: Fables of Estrangement (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990...