Italian Neorealism

Italian Neorealism Neorealism: a movement especially in Italian filmmaking characterized by the simple direct depiction of lower-class life. <Tab/> <Tab/>In the 1950's the common man of Italy was immersed in poverty and peasantry. The lower-class was uneasy at best and looking for an outlet to their discomfort. In the beginning the movement was a deliberate rejection of movies made by state-controlled studios in Italy during the …

…a raw approach to "entertaining" the audiences. The films themselves were grainy roughly edited and even though the sound was dubbed, it was generally inaccurate. They were in opposition to the glamorous, glossy, studio filmmaking. Subsequently the French New Wave critics celebrated neorealism and incorporated much of it in their own movement. Other movements in The United States, Poland, Japan, The United Kingdom and elsewhere developed many of the ideas first expressed by the neorealists.