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Neorealism and the "New" ItalyCompassion and the Construction of Women’s Identity in Rome, Open City

Neorealism and the "New" Italy: Compassion and the Construction of Women’s Identity in Rome, Open... [This chapter investigates Rossellini’s representations of compassion, opening new lines of inquiry in the examination of the film. It also highlights potential connections with the traditional patriarchal ideology, prevailing during Italy’s Fascist period, and deviations from it, which neorealist artists try to eliminate. Rossellini uses compassion as a way to solve struggles and to underscore and approve modern women’s political and social participation. The film also suggests that those qualities are valued only when women also demonstrate the patriarchal values particularly glorified by Fascism, such as commitment to the roles of wife and mother associated with the domestic sphere, thus proposing a less inventive way of problem-solving.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Neorealism and the "New" ItalyCompassion and the Construction of Women’s Identity in Rome, Open City

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
ISBN
978-1-137-54132-1
Pages
179 –200
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-52416-4_14
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Abstract

[This chapter investigates Rossellini’s representations of compassion, opening new lines of inquiry in the examination of the film. It also highlights potential connections with the traditional patriarchal ideology, prevailing during Italy’s Fascist period, and deviations from it, which neorealist artists try to eliminate. Rossellini uses compassion as a way to solve struggles and to underscore and approve modern women’s political and social participation. The film also suggests that those qualities are valued only when women also demonstrate the patriarchal values particularly glorified by Fascism, such as commitment to the roles of wife and mother associated with the domestic sphere, thus proposing a less inventive way of problem-solving.]

Published: Aug 21, 2016

Keywords: Female Character; Emotional Involvement; Female Identity; Psychic Distance; Female Protagonist

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