THTRFLM 3L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lamberto Maggiorani, Mise-En-Scène, Bicycle Thieves
1 Feb 2016
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Film noir and the post-american film industry. Characters: antonio ricci, maria ricci, bruno (son, boaocco (engineer that wants to help them out, thief (alfredo, old man, signora santona. The plot occurs on a friday, saturday and sunday (spends sunday looking for his bike) A touchstone for french critic andre bezan (championed italian films in late 40"s) Neo-realism important as a marker for where cinema was going. Refusals of neo-realism by andre bezen: refuse to edit in conventional ways, films preferred to maintain temporal continuity (the actual, favor the long take duration, long-take, etc. ,) environment, neo-realism refuses to extract the character from their. Enjoy delight: shows a greater depth of field. Don"t use close-ups because they remove them from their environment (bodiless head) Actors don"t stand out from the background narrative: refuse to impose artificial cause and effect patterns on their.
