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| Author | : Robert Owen Keohane |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 396 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780231063494 |
Neorealism is the school of international relations that emphasizes the role of inter-state power struggles in world affairs.This volume features essays by both its most prominent exponents and its principal critics.
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| Release | : 2003 |
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| Author | : Laura E. Ruberto |
| Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 362 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780814333242 |
This volume addresses the influence of Italian neorealist films on world cinema well beyond the post-World War II period associated with the movement. Despite its lack of organization and relatively short life span, the Italian neorealist movement deeply influenced directors and film traditions around the world. This collection examines the impact of Italian neorealism beyond the period of 1945-52, the years conventionally connected to the movement, and beyond the postwar Italian film industry where the movement originated. Providing a refreshing aesthetic and ideological contrast to mainstream Hollywood films, neorealist filmmakers demonstrated not only how an engaging narrative technique could be brought to bear upon social issues but also how cinema could shape and redefine national identity. The fourteen essays in Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema consider films from Italy, India, Brazil, Africa, the Czech Republic, postwar Germany, Hong Kong, the United States, France, Belgium, Colombia, and Great Britain. Each essay explores neorealism's complex relationship to a different national film tradition, style, or historical period, illustrating the profound impact of neorealism and the ways it continues to complicate the relationship between ideas of nation, national cinema, and national identity. Many of the essays identify similar themes or motifs adapted from neorealism, and several essays address a politicized national film tradition that developed in opposition to a monolithic Western aesthetic. In all, Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema provides a novel critical understanding of the wide-ranging international impact of a short period in Italian cultural history. Film scholars and students of film history will appreciate this insightful text.
| Author | : Saverio Giovacchini |
| Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
| Total Pages | : 407 |
| Release | : 2011-10-11 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1628468882 |
Contributions by Nathaniel Brennan, Luca Caminati, Silvia Carlorosi, Caroline Eades, Saverio Giovacchini, Paula Halperin, Neepa Majumdar, Mariano Mestman, Hamid Naficy, Sada Niang, Masha Salazkina, Sarah Sarzynski, Robert Sklar, and Vito Zagarrio Intellectual, cultural, and film historians have long considered neorealism the founding block of post-World War II Italian cinema. Neorealism, the traditional story goes, was an Italian film style born in the second postwar period and aimed at recovering the reality of Italy after the sugarcoated moving images of fascism. Lasting from 1945 to the early 1950s, neorealism produced world-renowned masterpieces such as Roberto Rossellini's Roma, città aperta (Rome, Open City, 1945) and Vittorio De Sica's Ladri di biciclette (Bicycle Thieves, 1947). These films won some of the most prestigious film awards of the immediate postwar period and influenced world cinema. This collection brings together distinguished film scholars and cultural historians to complicate this nation-based approach to the history of neorealism. The traditional story notwithstanding, the meaning and the origins of the term are problematic. What does neorealism really mean, and how Italian is it? Italian filmmakers were wary of using the term and Rossellini preferred "realism." Many filmmakers confessed to having greatly borrowed from other cinemas, including French, Soviet, and American. Divided into three sections, Global Neorealism examines the history of this film style from the 1930s to the 1970s using a global and international perspective. The first section examines the origins of neorealism in the international debate about realist esthetics in the 1930s. The second section discusses how this debate about realism was “Italianized” and coalesced into Italian “neorealism” and explores how critics and film distributors participated in coining the term. Finally, the third section looks at neorealism’s success outside of Italy and examines how film cultures in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the United States adjusted the style to their national and regional situations.
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| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 432 |
| Release | : 1990-08 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0804766576 |
Italo Calvino's reputation as one of the great writers of our century rests chiefly on his allegorical fables and fantastic narratives, whose inventiveness, irreverence, and elegant style are universally admired. In this study, the author focuses on Calvino's first novel, The Path to the Nest of Spiders (1947), because in it she discerns a critical point of origin for Calvino's entire 'ethics' of writing. She shows how, in The Path, he challenges the poetics of objectivity of the Italian neorealists movement and offers a complex and ironic representation of the anti-Fascist armed resistance in Italy. Situating Calvino's early work in its historical and cultural context, the author reassesses Italian neorealism in terms of the theories and critical debates about realism of such critics as Lukacs, Sartre, Brecht, Adorno, and Barthes. She analyzes neorealism's narrative practices and cultural and political implications, while setting neorealism in the context of the resistance and the postwar Reconstruction in Italy and giving readings of major neorealist texts (novels by Pavese and Vittorini, films by Rossellini, Visconti, and others) as well as relatively obscure minor ones. The heart of the book consists of readings of The Path from four different but intersecting critical perspectives: formalist-narratological, sociohistorical, psychoanalytic, and Bakhtinian. The readings assess the importance of Calvino's beginnings for the body of his work and incorporate relevant references to his later fiction and critical essays. Out of these multiple readings, the ironic estrangement of the real through the act of writing itself emerges as his key narratological strategy.
| Author | : Ernest R. May |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
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| Release | : 2010-09-09 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1139490923 |
Neorealists argue that all states aim to acquire power and that state cooperation can therefore only be temporary, based on a common opposition to a third country. This view condemns the world to endless conflict for the indefinite future. Based upon careful attention to actual historical outcomes, this book contends that, while some countries and leaders have demonstrated excessive power drives, others have essentially underplayed their power and sought less position and influence than their comparative strength might have justified. Featuring case studies from across the globe, History and Neorealism examines how states have actually acted. The authors conclude that leadership, domestic politics, and the domain (of gain or loss) in which they reside play an important role along with international factors in raising the possibility of a world in which conflict does not remain constant and, though not eliminated, can be progressively reduced.
| Author | : Tarek Naji Tutunji |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 426 |
| Release | : 2011 |
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Neorealism is an approach in the field of International Relations which was first outlined by Kenneth Waltz in 1979. It is the most prominent and popular approach in the field, despite a large literature criticizing it. Over the course of four decades now, repeated waves of critique directed at Neorealism have crashed ineffectively against the Neorealist rocks. This thesis seeks to explain why such an overwhelming amount of criticism has been so ineffective, and how future criticism should be directed. This is done by looking into the ways Neorealism has been defined by its critics. Most critics of Neorealism define the approach around a number of core tenets. Using Philosophy of Science literature to deconstruct the tenets of Neorealism, the thesis shows that instead of being bound together by a number of core principles, Neorealism is constructed around a resilient, parsimonious, and flexible theoretical shield, namely, Kenneth Waltz's Structural Realist theory of international politics, which provides powerful protection for a large range of scholarship, while allowing flexibility for different scholars to pursue their own approaches. It is found that because most attacks do not disarm Neorealists from their theoretical shield, and because those who attempt to do so fail to successfully locate where Waltz's theory is vulnerable, Neorealism has managed to escape criticism from a wide range of attacks that would otherwise constitute potent criticism. In order to rectify this, Waltz's structural theory is re-examined to identify its vulnerabilities. It is found that the framework of theory that Waltz uses is ontologically divided between laws that are related to the real world and theories that are not. It is clear that criticism of Waltz fails because it is directed at his theory. By shifting focus and taking aim at Waltz's laws, it becomes possible to disperse the cover that Waltz's Structural Realism provides for Neorealists, making attacks on Neorealism possible and efficient.
| Author | : Donatella Spinelli Coleman |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1135718113 |
Italian neo-realism has inspired film audiences and fascinated critics and film scholars for decades. This book offers an original analysis of the movement and its defining films from the perspective of the cultural unconscious. Combining a Jungian reading with traditional theorizations of film and national identity, Filming the Nation reinterprets familiar images of well-known masterpieces by Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio de Sica and Luchino Visconti and introduces some of their less renowned yet equally significant films. Providing an illuminating analysis of film images across a particularly traumatic and complex historical period, Filming the Nation revisits the concept of national identity and its ‘construction’ from a perspective that combines cultural, psychoanalytic and post-Jungian theories. As such this book will be essential reading for all students and scholars of film and psychoanalysis.
| Author | : David Allen Baldwin |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 396 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780231084413 |
Essays by prominent political theorists representing the two dominant schools of international relations, neoliberalism and neorealism.
| Author | : Helen V. Milner |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2020-06-30 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0691214492 |
Increasingly scholars of international relations are rallying around the idea that "domestic politics matters." Few, however, have articulated precisely how or why it matters. In this significant book, Helen Milner lays out the first fully developed theory of domestic politics, showing exactly how domestic politics affects international outcomes. In developing this rational-choice theory, Milner argues that any explanation that treats states as unitary actors is ultimately misleading. She describes all states as polyarchic, where decision-making power is shared between two or more actors (such as a legislature and an executive). Milner constructs a new model based on two-level game theory, reflecting the political activity at both the domestic and international levels. She illustrates this model by taking up the critical question of cooperation among nations. Milner examines the central factors that influence the strategic game of domestic politics. She shows that it is the outcome of this internal game--not fears of other countries' relative gains or the likelihood of cheating--that ultimately shapes how the international game is played out and therefore the extent of cooperative endeavors. The interaction of the domestic actors' preferences, given their political institutions and levels of information, defines when international cooperation is possible and what its terms will be. Several test cases examine how this argument explains the phases of a cooperative attempt: the initiation, the negotiations at the international level, and the eventual domestic ratification. The book reaches the surprising conclusion that theorists--neo-Institutionalists and Realists alike--have overestimated the likelihood of cooperation among states.
