"After World War II, a wave of Italian films emerged that depicted the life and hardships of characters left helpless after the conflict, bringing to the screen the struggles of a time of existential angst and uncertainty. This form of filmmaking was associated with a broader ar…
Introduction : realism and the commons -- The persistence of the commons, the persistence of enclosure -- Dickensian types and a culture of the commons -- Eliot, cosmopolitanism, and the commons -- The typical and the tragic in Hardy's geopolitical commons -- Afterword : old and…
The enclosure of the commons, space once available for communal use, was not a singular event but an act of "slow violence" that transformed lands, labor, and basic concepts of public life leading into the nineteenth century. The Afterlife of Enclosure examines three canonical B…
Italian neorealism: rebuilding the cinematic city
by Shiel, Mark
fromShort cuts (London, England)
"This book is an invaluable introduction to one of the most influential of film movements. Exploring the origins and evolution of Neorealism, particularly the effects of the Second World War, as well as its politics and style, this volume examines the portrayal of the city and t…
Italian neorealism: rebuilding the cinematic city
by Shiel, Mark
fromShort cuts (London, England)
"This book is an invaluable introduction to one of the most influential of film movements. Exploring the origins and evolution of Neorealism, particularly the effects of the Second World War, as well as its politics and style, this volume examines the portrayal of the city and t…
"Since Gideon Rose's 1998 review article in the journal World Politics and especially following the release of Lobell, Ripsman, and Taliaferro's 2009 edited volume Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy, neoclassical realism has emerged as major theoretical approach…