Roberto Rossellini

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by Peter Brunette

University of California Press

Due/Published December 1996, 425 pages, paper

ISBN 0520200535

Brunette combines close analyses of Roberto Rossellini's formal and narrative style with a thorough account of his position in the political and cultural landscape of postwar Italy.

"This book rescues a seminal film director from an undeserved oblivion and restores him to a central position in the thematic and stylistic evolution of the modern cinema. A labor of love and lucidity!"--Andrew Sarris

"This is the first serious American book about my father.... and a missing piece in the history of film for American film-lovers."--Isabella Rossellini