Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the geography and history of global neorealism / Saverio Giovacchini and Robert Sklar -- Before the (Neorealist) revolution / Vito Zagarrio -- Soviet-Italian cinematic exchanges, 1920s 1950s: from early Soviet film theory to neorealism / Masha Salazkina -- The role of documentary film in the formation of the neorealist cinema / Luca Caminati -- "The exalted spirit of the actual": James Agee, critic and filmmaker, and the U.S. response to neorealism / Robert Sklar -- Marketing meaning, branding neorealism: advertising and promoting Italian cinema in postwar America / Nathaniel Brennan -- Neorealism: another "cinema de papa" for the French new wave? / Caroline Eades -- "With an incredible realism that beats the best of the European cinemas": the making of Barrio Gris and the reception of Italian neorealism in Argentina, 1947-1955 / Paula Halperin -- Living in peace after the massacre: neorealism, colonialism, and race / Saverio Giovacchini -- From Italian neorealism to new Latin American cinema: ruptures and continuities during the 1960s / Mariano Mestman -- Importing neorealism, exporting cinema: Indian cinema and film festivals in the 1950s / Neepa Majumdar -- Neorealism and nationalist African cinema / Sada Niang -- Documenting the social reality of Brazil: Roberto Rossellini, the Paraban -- Documentary school, and the cinema novistas / Sarah Sarzynski -- Neorealism Iranian style / Hamid Naficy -- Epilogue: neorealism, cinema of poetry, and Italian contemporary cinema / Silvia Carlorosi.

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