Dr David Hickman: Triumph of the Real: From The Communist Manifesto to Jason Bourne

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Description:	In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, cinematic realism was the most significant revolution in visual culture since the late Renaissance. Not only did it carry along the Neo-Realists in Italy, La Nouvelle Vague and and cinéma vérité in France, Direct Cinema and urban realism in the US, and Free Cinema and social realism in Britain; it also shaped the visual language of television, in a profound way, in fiction and non-fiction. But there is a dark side to this revolution – one that has filmmakers in numerous national (and usually oppositional) cinemas struggling to break free.

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In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, cinematic realism was the most significant revolution in visual culture since the late Renaissance. Not only did it carry along the Neo-Realists in Italy, La Nouvelle Vague and and cinéma vérité in France, Direct Cinema and urban realism in the US, and Free Cinema and social realism in Britain; it also shaped the visual language of television, in a profound way, in fiction and non-fiction.

But there is a dark side to this revolution – one that has filmmakers in numerous national (and usually oppositional) cinemas struggling to break free.


Created:	2014-12-18 14:50
Collection:	Humanities Society Wolfson College Humanities Society
Publisher:	Wolfson College, Cambridge
Copyright:	David Hickman
Language:	eng (English)