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Rome Open City Paperback - 2000

by David Forgacs

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Otto Preminger said the history of the cinema was divided into two eras: one before and one after Rome Open City (Roma Citt 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.

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Rome Open City was the first film to bring the Italian cinema to the attention of an international audience after the Second World War.

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Otto Preminger said the history of the cinema was divided into two eras: one before and one after "Rome Open City," Made in 1945, the film is based on events that took place in Rome just one year before, during the Nazi occupation and the resistance. It made a huge impact on its release, launched the international reputation of its director, Roberto Rossellini, and came to be seen as the founding work of Italian neorealism. In this original study, David Forgacs re-examines the film and its place in Rossellini's career. He reconstructs its production history, its relationship to the events that inspired it and the time in which it was made. He argues that the film has great value as a commemoration and a documentary record even as it rhetorically reshapes events, people and places into patriotic myth.

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  • Title Rome Open City
  • Author David Forgacs
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 80
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher British Film Institute, Great Britain.
  • Publication date April 1, 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780851708041 / 0851708048
  • Weight 0.34 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.55 x 5.33 x 0.27 in (19.18 x 13.54 x 0.69 cm)
  • Category Pop Arts / Pop Culture
  • Library of Congress subjects Realism in motion pictures
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001369108
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.437

About the author

David Forgacs is Professor of Italian at University College London, UK. He formerly taught at Sussex, Cambridge and Royal Holloway, where he was Reader in Film Studies. He is co-editor of Roberto Rossellini: Magician of the Real (BFI, 2000).
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