FALL 2024 - Antologia del cinema Italiano: Anthology of Italian Cinema - 4 Part Series
Thu, Oct 24
|Westchester Italian Cultural Center
Presented by Professor Joseph Spedaliere: The Best of Italian Cinema in the Early 1950s October 24, November 7, November 21, December 5
Time & Location
Oct 24, 2024, 6:30 PM
Westchester Italian Cultural Center, 1 Generoso Pope Pl, Tuckahoe, NY 10707, USA
About the event
*This is a 4 part Italian Film Study Course (October 24, November 7, November 21, December 5). Registration fee includes all four films/classes, Tasting of regional foods, wine and coffee. Classes be purchased separately.MAY NOT
In the challengingly hellish period of World War II and its aftermath, Italy made its greatest contribution to the art of cinema: il Neorealismo .This innovative, crudeand eye-opening presentation of reality was the first postwar film movement todiscard past conventions and studio production techniques simply because of the impoverished state of the industry and the country; additionally, its proponents were obsessed with the over-powering need to show the world a new and truer reality.
Despite its broad international influence, in the early 1950s in Italy, Neorealism started to gradually morph as a well-defined movement. Despite the cries of some hardcore adherents to this school of socio-political cinema, Italian film nevertheless continued to grow in esteem…