...Princeton University Press, 1986) les següents «regles del gènere»: «location shooting, lenghty takes, unobtrusive editing, natural lighting, a predominance...continuity of time and space, use of contemporary, true-life subjects, an uncontrived, open-ended plot, working class protagonists, a nonprofessional...

...Marcus nonetheless offers a useful description of what constitutes its basic style and techniques. "The rules governing neorealist practice would include...vernacular, active viewer involvement, and implied social criticism" (Marcus, Italian Cinema, 22). 9. Film still, Beijing nizao (Good morning, Beijing) (1990)....

...included on-location shooting, non-professional Castellani and Pietro Germi, while its rules actors, lengthy takes, unobtrusive editing, natural lighting,...time and space, use of contemporary, true-to-life subject matter, rejection of conventional dramatic structure, open-ended plot, working-class characters,...

...Marcus nonetheless offers a useful description of what constitutes its basic style and techniques. "The rules governing neorealist practice would include...vernacular, active viewer involvement, and implied social criticism" (Marcus, Italian Cinema, a). 13. Zhang Wei 1990, 55-56. One needs to note here that this...

...postwar meaning of the term. These traits have been well summarized by Millicent Marcus and consist of: 'location shooting, lengthy takes, unobtrusive editing,...vernacular, active viewer involvement, and implied social criticism."'2 While indicating the traits specific to Neorealism, Marcus also clarifies that each author...

...neo-realists sought to replace the shameful falsities of Fascism with uncompromising truths, through location shooting, lengthy takes, unobtrusive editing,...lighting, a predominance of medium and long shots, injection of elements of contemporary social criticism, an uncontrived, open-ended plot, working-class...

...Marcus nonetheless offers a useful description of what constitutes its basic style and techniques: "The rules governing neorealist practice would include...vernacular, active viewer involvement, and implied social criticism" (Italian Cinema, 22). 30 Zhang Wei, "Niixing de guishu yu lishi qianyi: Beijing nizao de...

...Marcus abstracts a hypothetical set of particular "rules governing neorealist practice," including location shooting, lengthy takes, unobtrusive editing,...vernacular, active viewer involvement, and implied social criticism.17 But these fit Open City best when we recognize how the film pushes against each one: it...

...from the features standardly attributed to a neorealist aesthetic practice. This practice features location shooting, lengthy takes, unobtrusive editing, natural lighting, a predominance of medium- and longshots, respect for the continuity of space and time, use of contemporary, true-to-life subjects,...

...Marcus summarizes some of these unwritten "rules governing neorealism," filmmaking imperatives that include "location shooting, lengthy takes, unobtrusive...vernacular, active viewer involvement, and implied social criticism" (22). The purpose of these "rules" is, as Zavattini, the widely proclaimed theorist of neorealism,...