{"product_id":"9780816675555","title":"Brutal Vision","description":"Author: Karl Schoonover\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780816675555\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 26 Apr 2012\u003cbr\u003ePages: 328 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFilm history identifies Italian neorealism as the exemplar of national cinema, a specifically domestic response to wartime atrocities. \u003ci\u003eBrutal Vision\u003c\/i\u003e challenges this orthodoxy by arguing that neorealist films--including such classics as \u003ci\u003eRome, Open City; Paisan; Shoeshine; and Bicycle Thieves\u003c\/i\u003e--should be understood less as national products and more as complex agents of a postwar reorganization of global politics. For these films, cinema facilitates the liberal humanist sympathy required to usher in a new era of world stability.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47919115960478,"sku":"ING-9780816675555","price":41.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780816675555.jpg?v=1782808117","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780816675555","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}