Realist Film Theory and Bicycle Thieves

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This book offers a concise introduction to realist film theory and shows how this theory can be engaged to interpret Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves. Through three key concepts?Hollywood and realism, early realist theories and their influence, and realism and its relationship to melodrama?the book lays bare the debates and approaches within the vibrant history of realist film theory. In this way, the book provides a point of entry to realist film theory from its inception to today as well as a new way to conceive of realism.