Italians Locations: Reinhabiting the Past in Postwar Cinema
by Noa Steimatsky
University of Minnesota Press, 2008
"Fascism and the Second World War left Italy indelibly changed, and cinema was arguably the art that most rigorously confronted the devastated nation. In this examination of four Italian filmmakers [Antonioni, Pasolini, Rossellini, and Visconti], Noa Steimatsky brilliantly maps their forceful negotiation of Italy’s identity and posits that the cinematic forms they employ constitute an imaginary reinhabiting of Italy—one that is inextricably linked with the political, physical, and symbolic predicament of reconstruction."
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