Cinematografia neorealistă și memoria războiului
Neorealist Cinema and the Memory of WWII

Summary/Abstract: Italian neorealism, a cinematic movement that emerged in the late 1940s, is heavily influenced by anti-fascism and the spirit of the Resistance. It is often associated with leftist culture and has its roots in the fascist period. Aesthetically, neorealism is marked by innovations such as on-location filming, the use of non-professional actors, documentary-style editing, and the rejection of Hollywood conventions. Authentic language, the use of regional dialects, and faithful representation of social reality became defining features of this new postwar cinematic movement. Ideologically, neorealism reflected the political tensions of the era, serving both as a form of social critique and as a tool for reconstructing collective identity. Films such as Roma città aperta turn cinema into a valuable primary source for historians, allowing the analysis of the interaction between individual experience, collective memory, and the political context of the postwar period. Beyond film studies, the neorealist movement has interdisciplinary relevance in social, cultural, and political history, serving as a lens through which to understand the postwar period.

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