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The view from Warsaw: Italian neorealism in Stalinist-era Poland
- Source: Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies, Volume 11, Issue Intersections between Italian and Slavic Cinemas, Jun 2023, p. 615 - 625
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- 27 Aug 2021
- 03 Dec 2021
- 07 Jun 2023
Abstract
Italian neorealist films were quite popular in Stalinist-era Poland (1945–53). As part of the propaganda strategy, they were used to create a negative image of life in western countries, thus confirming the omnipresent vision of ‘rotten capitalism’. The social criticism contained in neorealism was manipulated through a modal framework that explained to the Polish audiences all phenomena as a product of a bad social system based on injustice and exploitation. The aim of this article is to examine Polish reviews of two neorealist films: Ladri di biciclette (Bicycle Thieves) (De Sica 1948) and La terra trema (The Earth Trembles) (Visconti 1948) both presented to Polish audiences in 1951.
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