neorealist
Raw-life film devotee
A neorealist is someone associated with neorealism—a movement in film, literature, or international relations theory.
In cinema, neorealism emerged in post-World War II Italy, emphasizing everyday life, non-professional actors, and location shooting: The neorealists rejected Hollywood glamour.
In political science, neorealists analyze international relations through the lens of state power and structural constraints rather than ideology or morality.
Film from Rome's studios
- 1940sFourth decade, twentieth century
- FelliniItalian auteur of surrealism
- open cityMunicipality declared non-combatant
- reconstruction eraPost-catastrophe rebuilding period
Appearance of being factual
- authenticityQuality of being genuine
- humanismPhilosophy prioritizing earthly reason
- anti-fascistOpposes authoritarian nationalism
- leftistAdvocate for progressive politics
Marxist · truth-telling · solidarity · ordinary people · lived experience · political engagement · collective struggle
Severe lack of resources
- working-classManual laborers as group
- unemploymentBeing without paid work
- social injusticeUnfair treatment by institutions
- everyday lifeOrdinary regular existence
dignity · survival · disillusionment · moral ambiguity · class disparity · economic hardship · human resilience · alienation
Imitating factual film techniques
- handheld cameraPortable video recording device
- available lightExisting illumination in scene
- location shootingFilming at real places
- long takesUnbroken filmed sequences
ambient sound · grainy footage · raw footage · black-and-white · improvisation · observational · unpolished · unstaged
Italian cinema
Film from Rome's studios
verisimilitude
Appearance of being factual
- authenticityQuality of being genuine
- humanismPhilosophy prioritizing earthly reason
- anti-fascistOpposes authoritarian nationalism
leftist · Marxist · truth-telling · solidarity · ordinary people · lived experience · political engagement · collective struggle
poverty
Severe lack of resources
- working-classManual laborers as group
- unemploymentBeing without paid work
- social injusticeUnfair treatment by institutions
everyday life · dignity · survival · disillusionment · moral ambiguity · class disparity · economic hardship · human resilience · alienation · dispossession
documentary-style
Imitating factual film techniques
- handheld cameraPortable video recording device
- available lightExisting illumination in scene
- location shootingFilming at real places
long takes · ambient sound · grainy footage · raw footage · black-and-white · improvisation · observational · unpolished · unstaged
neorealistescapist
Seeker of distraction
fantastical · Hollywood glamour · studio system · fantasy · expressionist
neorealistconstructivist
Believer in built understanding
idealist · Kantian · cosmopolitan · functionalist · globalist
neorealistidealist
Pursuer of noble principles
subjectivist · constructionist · postmodernist · relativist · nominalist