Essays on De Sica

Bicycle Thieves, also referred to as The Bicycle Thief is a film that tells the story of a father seeking to find a bike that has been stolen throughout Rome. The film has often been considered to be one of the most well-respected in the neorealism genre. Specifically, because of its depiction of harsh realities of life post World War II, and its effects on the conditions and psyche of individuals. A horror thriller masterpiece, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho is noted for its distinctive subject matter and for spawning what is considered to be an extremely successful subgenre of the ...

The film industry during the World War II underwent major changes to help change the cause of the war. The world war II affected cinematography and the story lines of various movies that were produced at that time. These movies symbolized the Cardinal impulses that later came to captivate serious audiences, filmmakers, and critics after the war.

Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)

Rick Blaine, a businessman with a strict, but cool, cynical and efficient business man whose anger is reserved, an American expatriate is the owner of a highly rated nightclub and a gambling den in Casablanca. The movie develops complex characters who are ...

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Film making in Italy is an intriguing subject since it has brought about change and progress in a country which was otherwise extremely backward. The rise of fascism in the pre-war decades saw a different type of cinema school emerge and some great propaganda films were produced, mostly those which glorified Mussolini and the fascist dictatorship. However Italy was actually one of the first film making countries to start an avant garde movement which flourished during the years of the First World War. Unfortunately several films from this period have been lost although there has been a substantial critical reception for films ...