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Table of Contents: “…Delayed Cinema and "This Space-Time of Freedom": De Sica's Bicycle Thieves (1948) --…”
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Table of Contents: “…Realism in the cinema: Bicycle thieves --…”
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Table of Contents: “…Italian Neorealism and the Emergence of the Male Melodrama: Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves (1948) and Umherto D. (1952) --…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the non-professional actor : histories, theories, performances -- Acting, stardom and the non-professional in Italy from fascism to the post-war -- Bodies, voices, afterlives : case studies of Bicycle thieves' Lamberto Maggiorani, and the cast of La terra trema -- Girls, stardom, and the danger of cinema -- The non-professional child actor : beyond Bicycle thieves -- The non-professional in contemporary global cinema.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Dark as last night -- After life -- Bobby Moses -- Bicycle thieves -- Probate -- Starman -- The blood bank : a love story -- The death of Michael McGuire -- The manger -- Together -- The librarian -- Animal welfare -- Flight -- Without sin -- Lemonade -- Riding trains with Thelma Plum.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Delayed cinema and "this space-time of freedom": De Sica's Bicycle Thieves (1948) -- La Demora (2012) -- Existence and ethics in the Dardenne Brothers' Two Days, One Night (2015) -- El Viaje: Tommy Lee Jones and the violent times of the mission to Mexico -- The American way: time, death, and resurrection in Iñárritu's Western masterpiece.…”
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Table of Contents: “…A moment and a country -- Realism and neorealism -- Literary neorealism : narration and testimony -- Rossellini's cities of war and resistance -- Wandering among De Sica's urbanites : shoeshiners, bicycle thieves, miraculous outcasts and a man with a dog -- Visconti's worlds of aestheticism and ideology : between tradition and invention, from country to city -- Faces and spaces of neorealism : from dystopian cities to utopian countries -- The journey beyond neorealism : streetwalkers, political rebels, anti-mafia resisters, stolen children and unwanted citizens.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Cannistraro -- Remembrance of things past / Marcia Landy -- On a train to the kingdom of Earth : watching De Sica's children / George Toles -- Shoeshine / Pauline Kael -- The art of Shoeshine / Bert Cardullo -- Holding hands with a bicycle thief / Mark West -- Bicycle thieves : a re-reading / Frank P. Tomasulo -- Neorealist aesthetics and the fantastic : the machine to kill bad people and Miracle in Milan / Peter Bondanella -- Appendix : Reflections on Miracle in Milan / Claude Roy -- Miracle in Milan : some psychoanalytic notes on a movie / Alexander Grinstein -- Pius Aeneas and Totò, il buono : the founding myth of the divine city / Hart Wegner -- Umberto D. : Vittorio De Sica's 'super'-naturalism / Vernon Young -- The subversive potential of the pseudo-iterative / Marsha Kinder -- A home in the ditch of Saint Agnes : De Sica's The roof / Howard Curle -- The case of De Sica / James Price -- Hiding in the light : De Sica's work in the 1960s / Stephen Snyder -- In love and war : Vittorio De Sica's Two women / Faye McIntyre -- De Sica's Garden of the Finzi-Continis : an escapist Paradise lost / Millicent Marcus -- The magic mountain / Colin Westerbeck.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Zhiwei -- PART II: GENRE AND TRANSNATIONAL AESTHETICS -- Bicycle Thieves and Pickpockets in the 'Desert of the Real': Transnational Chinese Cinema, Postmodernism, and the Transcendental Style; G. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction : hot air and high hopes in world cinema -- Storms over Asia : Mongolia, montage aesthetics, and Jia Zhangke's The world -- Bicycle thieves and pickpockets : Jia Zhangke's Xiao Wu and Patrick Tam's After this our exile -- Brecht in Hong Kong cinema : Ann Hui's Ordinary heroes and Evans Chan's The life and times of Wu Zhongxian -- Les maoïstes, les chinoises, and Jean-Pierre Léaud : China, France, and the sexual politics of the cultural revolution -- Dragons in diaspora : the politics of race in Bruce Lee's Way of the dragon and Louis Leterrier's Danny the dog -- Citing the American dream in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong : Clara Law's Like a dream and Red earth -- Conclusion : cinematic citations and the circulation of Chinese-language motion pictures.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction : hot air and high hopes in world cinema -- Storms over Asia : Mongolia, montage aesthetics, and Jia Zhangke's The world -- Bicycle thieves and pickpockets : Jia Zhangke's Xiao Wu and Patrick Tam's After this our exile -- Brecht in Hong Kong cinema : Ann Hui's Ordinary heroes and Evans Chan's The life and times of Wu Zhongxian -- Les maoïstes, les chinoises, and Jean-Pierre Léaud : China, France, and the sexual politics of the cultural revolution -- Dragons in diaspora : the politics of race in Bruce Lee's Way of the dragon and Louis Leterrier's Unleashed -- Citing the American dream in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong : Clara Law's Like a dream and Red earth -- Conclusion : cinematic citations and the circulation of Chinese-language motion pictures.…”

Table of Contents: “…Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944) -- The pedestrian : The bicycle thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948) -- Vacancy : Throne of blood (Akira Kurosawa, 1957) -- Ghosting : Pyassa (Guru Dutt, 1957) -- Exposures : Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963) -- Immobility : The conformist (1970) -- Red : Don't look now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973) -- Folds : The marriage of Maria Braun (R.W. …”

Table of Contents: “…López -- High-tech primitivism : the representation of tribal societies in feature films / Jean Franco -- 'All that trouble down there' : Hollywood and Central America / James Dunkerley -- Neo-realism and new Latin American cinema : Bicycle thieves and Blood of the condor / John Hess -- Hyper-, retro-, or counter-cinema : European cinema and third cinema between Hollywood and art cinema / Thomas Elsaesser…”

Table of Contents: “…Pride and prejudice (1940) ; Ernest Lubitsch double feature : The shop around the corner (1940) and To be or not to be (1942) ; The Lady Eve (1941) ; Strawberry blonde (1941) ; Casablanca (1942) ; Random harvest (1942) ; Children of paradise (1945) ; Great expectations (1946) ; Bicycle thieves (1948) ; The third man (1949) -- The fifties. …”