{"product_id":"neorealist-architecture-9781032235073","title":"Neorealist Architecture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e***\u003cb\u003eWinner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e2022 and selected at the FAD Awards 2023***\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter 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 artistic phenomenon known as âneorealismâ and is now considered a pivotal point in the history of Italian cinema. But neorealism was not limited to film any more than it was to literature. It spread to other areas of artistic production, including architecture. What was, then, neorealist architecture?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the links between architecture, filmmaking and the built \u003ci\u003eenvironment\u003c\/i\u003e in \u003ci\u003edopoguerra\u003c\/i\u003e Italy (194Xâ195X) seeking to ascertain whether, and how, neorealism manifested itself in architecture. Terms such as âneorealist architectureâ or âarchitectural ne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeticulously researched and copiously illustrated, this book persuasively explicates the myriad connections among Italian cinema and architecture. Escudero’s deep knowledge of key films and buildings yields a new and more subtle understanding of neorealism and twentieth-century Italy. A must read for students and scholars of film and the city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdward Dimendberg\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003cem\u003eUniversity of California, Irvine.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Escudero brings a novel approach to housing scholarship. By viewing the postwar Italian social housing programme through the lens of neorealist cinema, he reveals their common ideological substrate – an aesthetics of everyday life that is in turn angry, nostalgic, and optimistic. The filmic records of ordinary, changing built environments, by reflecting the inner state of characters, also bring back into focus the intended beneficiary of housing: the human subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIrina Davidovici\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003cem\u003egta Institute, ETH Zürich.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLocating post-war Italian architecture in what he calls the \"environment\" of neorealism—the convergence of literature, film, and art that characterised Italy’s reconstruction after Fascism—David Escudero compellingly demonstrates how transmedial cultural innovations transformed the built space of Italian cities in the 1940s and ’50s. Wide ranging and richly detailed, this book brilliantly illuminates the links connecting architecture and cinema, offering an original survey of the landscape and built environment of Italian neorealism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCharles L. Leavitt IV.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eUniversity of Notre Dame.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eAuthor of \u003c\/em\u003eItalian Neorealism: A Cultural History \u003cem\u003e(University of Toronto Press, 2020).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Escudero’s thought-provoking book on Italian Neorealism offers a new and insightful angle to the study of one of the most influential artistic phenomena of the 20th century –Neorealism. His book shows that Neorealism not only transgressed the boundaries between architecture, film and other visual forms of expression, but also profoundly influenced our way of seeing, representing and embodying modern life in dopoguerra Italy. Escudero’s book brings much needed context, colour and depth into a fascinating world that most of us know only in black and white.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRichard Koeck\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003cem\u003eChair in Architecture and the Visual Arts, University of Liverpool. Director of the Centre for Architecture and the Visual Arts | CAVA.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book by David Escudero moves beyond being a remarkable historiographical review of the experiences in collective housing during the Italian \u003ci\u003edopoguerra\u003c\/i\u003e, to become the possibility of a cultural study. His insight transcends both the document and the image, entering a landscape where that \u003ci\u003efloating signifier \u003c\/i\u003ethat underlies the term \u003ci\u003eneorealism\u003c\/i\u003e activates a common sensibility. A sensibility that includes the dimension of the \u003ci\u003ereal\u003c\/i\u003e –or what is supposed to be real– in the form of architecture, of cinematographic stories, or in the images used for its presentation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJuan Miguel Hernández León.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cem\u003eChair Emeritus of Architecture, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ePresident of the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFOREWORD by Andrew Leach ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION \u003cstrong\u003ePART I. TOWARDS A CONCEPT: NEOREALIST ARCHITECTURE \u003c\/strong\u003eChapter 1. A Climate Beyond Filmmaking Chapter 2. Political Celebration, Formal Failure \u003cstrong\u003ePART II. A NEOREALIST \u003ci\u003eMAKING\u003c\/i\u003e IN ARCHITECTURE \u003c\/strong\u003eChapter 3. The INA-Casa Program as a Vehicle for Neorealism Chapter 4. Atmosphere, Mood, Mindset... Translated Into Bricks \u003cstrong\u003ePART III. NEOREALIST \u003ci\u003eIMAGES\u003c\/i\u003e OF ARCHITECTURE \u003c\/strong\u003eChapter 5. Architecture Within the Imagery of Neorealism Chapter 6. \u003ci\u003eFiguranti\u003c\/i\u003e of a Shared Aesthetic EPILOGUE. THE SCENE OF HUMAN’S LIFE BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51618779693399,"sku":"9781032235073","price":118.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032235073.jpg?v=1756903357","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/neorealist-architecture-9781032235073","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}