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February 20, 2008
Germany Year Zero, 1947. Directed by Roberto Rossellini
Germany Year Zero, 1947. Directed by Roberto Rossellini
Under Construction
Introduction
I have opened the page as the webliography might well be useful to visitors. An article on the film will come along in due course. However I wish to take a look at the new book on Italian Neorealism by Wagstaff first as this looks as though it will be a very valauble contribution to scholarship on the period.
Webliography
Best of 'Google Trawl' carried out 20 / 02 / 08 down to page 27.
Rai International Entry Germany Year Zero
Senses of Cinema entry on Germany Year Zero
Films de France entry Germany Year Zero
German Films Entry on Germany Year Zero
Denis Grunes Blog on Germany Year Zero
Bazin at Work - Section on Germany Year Zero on Google book search
Wellington Film Society entry on GermanyYear Zero
Explanation of Year Zero from Reinventing Germany German Political Development Since 1945
Bibliography
Rossellini, Roberto. The War Trilogy. Open City. Paisan. Germany-Year Zero. Edited and with an Introduction By Stefano Roncoroni. Translated from the Italian By Judith Green.
NY: Grossman, 1973.
André Bazin, "In Defense of Rossellini," a letter to Guido Aristarco, editor-in-chief of Cinema Nuovo, reprinted in What Is Cinema? vol.2, ed. and trans. Hugh Gray (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971), 97
Rossellini describes his approach to editing in an interview with Fereydoun Hoveyda and Jacques Rivette published in Cahiers du Cinéma 94 (April 1959): 213. Bazin provides an effective description of the consequences of this style of cutting: "The mind has to leap from one event to the other as one leaps from stone to stone in crossing a river. It may happen that one's foot hesitates between two rocks, or that one misses one's footing and slips. The mind does likewise." (35)
Rossellini interviewed by Eric Rohmer and François Truffaut in Cahiers du Cinéma 37 (July 1954)
David Forgacs, Sarah Lutton and Geoffrey Nowell-Smith. 2001. Roberto Rossellini: Magician of the Real.London: BFI
Wagstaff Christopher. 2008 Italian Neorealist Cinema: An Aesthetic Approach. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press