Rome Open City: Roma citta aperta (BFI Film Classics)

Forgacs, David

ISBN 10: 0851708048 / ISBN 13: 9780851708041

Published by British Film Institute, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rome Open City: Roma citta aperta (BFI Film Classics)
• Publisher: British Film Institute
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0851708048
• ISBN 13: 9780851708041
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

Otto Preminger said the history of the cinema was divided into two eras: one before and one after Rome Open City (Roma Cittą Aperta, 1945). The film is based on events that took place in Rome in 1944, during the Nazi occupation. This book re-examines the film and its place in Rossellini's career. David Forgacs reconstructs its production history, its relationship to the events that inspired it and the time in which it was made. He argues that the traditional critical labelling of Rome Open City as the original work of neo-realism fails to capture the film's hybrid and contradictory character. Part documentary record, part patriotic myth, Rome Open City is at once an extraordinarily powerful commemoration of wartime experience and a rhetorical reworking of that experience, using stereotypes and moral polarisations.

About the Author

David Forgacs is Professor of Italian at New York University, USA.