įor some later directors such as Fellini (one may also think of Sergio Leone and others), it was not all that easy to enter the scene. In addition, many critics feel that this particular group of prized Italian films was kept on the post-war agenda to wipe out the shameful days of Italian fascism. Neorealism set the agenda for theoretical, methodological, and historiographical discussions for decades to come this was due in part to André Bazin’s highly influential reflections on the topic. The corpus of Neorealist films constitutes almost 100 titles (which is only about 10% of the entire production in those days) and their impact on contemporary debates was substantial. Fellini was only a very young assistant director then. To understand the unique role Federico Fellini was to play in the golden age of Italian cinema, it is important to acknowledge that the accounts of the history of this national cinema were always dominated by the critical centrality of a cluster of films made between the mid-1940s and the mid-1950s which are commonly described as Neorealist. Exhibition: Fellini – The Exhibition (EYE Film Institute Netherlands, 30 June 2013 – 22 September 2013)Ĭatalogue: Fellini (Amsterdam: Eye Amsterdam & Amsterdam University Press, 2013), written and edited by Sam Stourdzé edited for EYE by Marente Bloemheuvel and Jaap GuldemondĪrt, perhaps, is measured by its ability to enrich our understanding, but is also measured by its capacity to provide evidence for the falsification of whatever theories we arrive at.
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