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The Non-Professional Actor: Italian Neorealist Cinema and Beyond
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The Non-Professional Actor: Italian Neorealist Cinema and Beyond
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The Non-Professional Actor: Italian Neorealist Cinema and Beyond
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Italian post-war cinema has been widely celebrated by critics and scholars: films such as
(De Sica, 1948) and
(Rossellini, 1946) remain globally influential, particularly for their use of non-professional actors. This period of regeneration of Italian cinema initiated the boom in cinemagoing that made cinema an important vector of national and gender identity for audiences.
The book addresses the casting, performance, and labour of non-professional actors, particularly children, their cultural and economic value to cinema, and how their use brought ideas of the ordinary into the discourse of stars as extraordinary. Relatedly, O'Rawe discusses critical and press discourses around acting, performance, and stardom, often focused on the 'crisis' of acting connected to the rise of non-professionals and the girls (like Sophia Loren) who found sudden cinematic fame via beauty contests.