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Italian Neorealism, Vittorio De Sica, and Bicycle Thieves

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The post-World War II birth or creation of neorealism was anything but a collective theoretical enterprise—the origins of Italian neorealist cinema were far more complex than that.

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Cardullo, R.J. (2016). Italian Neorealism, Vittorio De Sica, and Bicycle Thieves. In: Teaching Sound Film. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-726-9_4

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