DE SICA, VITTORIO

vēt-tôrˈyō də sēˈkə, 1901–74, Italian film director and actor. His Shoeshine (1946), The Bicycle Thief (1948), and Umberto D. (1952) are classics of postwar Italian neorealism. Among his later works are Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (1964), and The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1971), both of which won Academy Awards. He starred in Rossellini's General Della Rovere (1959) and many other films.

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books on: De Sica Vittorio  - 140 results

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The Oxford History of World Cinema
Book by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith; Oxford University Press, 1997
Subjects: Motion Pictures--History
...of Bicycle Thieves Ladri di biciclette, 1948 , Vittorio De Sica had a long and varied career. Between 1940 and...Contini 1971 MBIBLIOGRAPHY Pecori, Franco 1980 , De Sica . Vittorio De Sica directing Bicycle Thieves Ladri di bicidette, 1948
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Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures
Book by Vincent LoBrutto; Praeger, 2005
Subjects: Cinematography, Motion Pictures
...Navacelle, Thierry. Woody Allen on Location. New York: William Morrow, 1987. De Sica, Vittorio. Miracle in Milan. Screenplay by Cesare Zavattini and Vitorrio De Sica. New York: Orion Press, 1969. Dean, Michael W. $30 Film School. Boston...
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The Major Film Theories: An Introduction
Book by J. Dudley Andrew; Oxford University Press, 1976
Subjects: Motion Pictures--Aesthetics
...142 Bernanos, George, 132 , 133 Bicycle Thieves de Sica , 123 Birth of a Nation Griffith , 88 Boudu Saved from...172 de Saussure, Ferdinand, 214 , 235 , 239 , 240 de Sica, Vittorio, 123 , 145 , 252 Debussy, Claude, 59 Decor, 147...
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The Rebuilding of Italy: Politics and Economics, 1945- 1955
Book by Muriel Grindrod; Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1955
...Augusto, 80 De Nicola, Enrico, 27 , 58 De Renzi, General Edmondo, 150 De Sica, Vittorio, 245 De Viti De Marco, Antonio, 193 Deputazione Provinciale , 23 Di Vittorio, Giuseppe, 50 -1, 197 Dodecanese Islands, 30 Dossetti, Giuseppe, 68...
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A History of Narrative Film
Book by David A. Cook; W.W. Norton, 1996
Subjects: Motion Pictures--History
...The , 814 Deserters and Nomads , 714 -15 deserto rosso, Il , 609 , 614 , 630 -31 De Seta, Vittorio, 437 -38, 620 -22, 862 De Sica, Vittorio, 354 , 477 , 623 , 862 neorealism and, 424 , 430 -31, 433 , 435 , 438 Design for Living...
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journal articles on: De Sica Vittorio  - 26 results

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The Children Are Watching Us
Journal article by Bert Cardullo; The Hudson Review, Vol. 54, 2001
Subjects: De Sica, Vittorio, Majidi, Majid, Motion pictures
...neorealist films featured them. Vittorio De Sica himself used a child protagonist...and scripted by the author, De Sica, and Cesare Zavattini, formerly...an acknowledged member of the De Sica team for the first time, and he...
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The Italian Redemption of Cinema: Neorealism from Bazin to Godard
Journal article by Alessia Ricciardi; The Romanic Review, Vol. 97, 2006
Subjects: Filmmakers--Works, Italian movies, Motion pictures, Italian, Movie directors--Works, Neorealism
...Zavattini worked as the screenwriter for Vittorio De Sica and authored several of the masterpieces...a "quadrilatero" that places De Sica and Zavattini at one vertex and positions...The same may be said of the way De Sica presents the two key sequences that...
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The Fictional Worlds of Neorealism
Journal article by Patrick Keating; Criticism, Vol. 45, 2003
Subjects: Motion pictures--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...For instance, in Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio de Sica, 1948), we can say that the pictures...unusual case of Miracle in Milan (de Sica, 1951), which combines reality...realism, such as Umberto D. (de Sica, 1953), should not start by counting...
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Stardom, Italian Style: Screen Performance and Personality in Italian Cinema
Journal article by Tina Chiappetta-Miller; Italian Culture, Vol. 27, 2009
Subjects: Stardom, Italian Style: Screen Performance and Personality in Italian Cinema (Nonfiction work)
...Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman, Alberto Sordi...Visconti, Antonioni, De Sica, Wertmuller (briefly...Rossellinis direction of Vittorio De Sica in Il Generale della...purpose since "by using De Sica, an actor identified...
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Andre Bazin on Rene Clement and Literary Adaptation: Two Original Reviews
Journal article by Bert Cardullo; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 30, 2002
Subjects: Boyer, Francois, Clement, Rene, Literary criticism, Motion picture criticism, Motion picture directors & producers, Novels
...Road to Life or even Shoeshine (1946, Italy; dir. Vittorio De Sica).6 That is to say, if the movie proposed to be...Indiscretion of an American Wife, 1953; dir. Vittorio De Sica) turned out to be the American one. I was also amazed...
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magazine articles on: De Sica Vittorio  - 30 results

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Renaissance Man: the Artistry of Carlo Di Palma
Magazine article by Brooke Comer; American Cinematographer, Vol. 74, January 1993
...Antonioni, Bernardo Bertolucci, Vittorio Storaro and Gabriel Garcia Marquez...had worked as an operator for De Sica, Rossellini and Antonioni. Red...life. Antonioni, Woody Alien and Vittorio De Sica are all creative taskmasters, directors...
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One Woman and Her Dog: Kelly Reichardt's Latest Latest Film Revives Italian Neo-Realism in America's West
Magazine article by Ryan Gilbey; New Statesman, Vol. 138, March 9, 2009
Subjects: Motion pictures--Movie reviews, Wendy and Lucy (Motion picture)--Movie reviews
...the ingredients of Italian neo-realism or my name is Vittorio de Sica. The specifics may be different - the camera drifts...Reichardt invokes the stark, blank language of de Sica and Rossellini to show Wendy falling through the cracks...
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Youth Runs Wild!
Magazine article by Mark Venner; Film Ireland, July 2005
...Italian neorealist movement, led by Roberte Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Cesare Zavatttini and Luchino Visconti, created an...into betraying and ultimately destroying each other. De Sica said of his films that they were meant as a struggle...
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Return of the Real: Amy Taubin on Ballast and Wendy and Lucy
Magazine article by Amy Taubin; Artforum International, Vol. 47, October 2008
Subjects: Ballast (Motion picture)--Movie reviews, Motion pictures--Movie reviews, Wendy and Lucy (Motion picture)--Movie reviews
...Lucy raises the specter of two Neorealist classics by Vittorio De Sica: The Bicycle Thief (1948), in which a father and...Not content with the pathos of the situations, De Sica bathes both films in shamelessly heart-tugging music...
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An Art Wedded to Truth
Magazine article by Michael Sragow; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 274, October 1994
Subjects: Filmmakers--Criticism and interpretation, Indian movies, Motion pictures, Indian, Movie directors--Criticism and interpretation, Movie producers (Persons)--Criticism and interpretation, Ray, Satyajit--Criticism and interpretation
...embracing moviemaker to emerge since Jean Renoir and Vittorio de Sica--and, unlike those two maestros, he did great or...as a testament to how Ray kept alive the Renoir--De Sica tradition of luminous observation. His methods of charging...
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newspaper articles on: De Sica Vittorio  - 36 results

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Rediscovering De Sica the Actor
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), November 29, 2009
Subjects: Actors, Actresses
...great Italian actor-director Vittorio De Sica (1902-74) began performing...decades. But by the early 1950s, Vittorio De Sica, whose most conspicuous private...stretch. As a civilized farceur, Vittorio De Sica rivaled such Hollywood contemporaries...
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Poignant 'Baran' Shows De Sica Touch
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 3, 2002
Poignant Baran shows De Sica touch Byline: Gary Arnold, THE WASHINGTON...even closer to the mood of classic Vittorio De Sica titles of the 1940s, notably "Shoeshine...heartbreaking emotions reflects the De Sica influence at its most impressive...
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'Boccaccio' Anthology Features De Sica, Fellini; Plus 'Waltons' in 2nd Season
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 28, 2005
Boccaccio Anthology Features De Sica, Fellini; Plus Waltons in 2nd Season. Byline: THE WASHINGTON...billboard that comes to outsized walking, talking, teasing life. Vittorio De Sicas "The Raffle" also emerges as a solid winner. Here...
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De Sica's 'Garden' Retains Its Freshness, Beauty
Newspaper article by Gary Arnold; The Washington Times, January 17, 1997
...memorable of the films directed by Vittorio De Sica toward the end of his career...perverse mystery and resonance. Vittorio De Sica, also a formidable leading man...nudity) CREDITS: Directed by Vittorio De Sica. Screenplay by Cesare Zavattini...
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Film Institute Pays Tribute to 'The Bicycle Thief': De Sica's Classic Tale
Newspaper article by Gary Arnold; The Washington Times, April 4, 1999
...immediacy and transparency achieved by Vittorio de Sica in two movies he directed in the...Shoeshine," the entire de Sica career would lend itself to rediscovery...aspects). CREDITS: Directed by Vittorio de Sica. Screenplay by Cesare Zavattini...
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encyclopedia articles on: De Sica Vittorio  - 2 results

 
 
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De Sica, Vittorio
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DE SICA, VITTORIO vet-tor yo d se k , 1901 74, Italian film director and actor. His Shoeshine (1946), The Bicycle Thief (1948), and Umberto...
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Motion Pictures
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Italian cinema. Thereafter followed a cycle of exciting, compassionate, grimly realistic films from such directors as Vittorio De Sica, Luigi Zampa, Giuseppe de Santis, and Luchino Visconti. These films, usually concerned with social themes, were...


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