Neo-realism is the inaugural film movement that originated in Italy. Not since 1913 had Italy been an important film power. The huge silent spectacles of 1912 and 1913 were replaced by the Griffith films that were not only big but active. Early Italian film swung between the two-poles of pro-Mussolini propaganda and escapist comedies. These trends within Italian film makers furthered the inclination for free cinematic exertion. Neo-realism was a film movement that rose in response to the anti-fascist trend and Nazi occupation of Germany. It was a post world-war II phenomenon and emerged as a retort to ‘white telephone' film. Similarly, it opposed the so called "white telephone pictures, dubbed such due to the inevitable white telephone in the fancily decorated apartments that served as sets for these films." It's hostility to the white telephone film arose, not only on an ocular level, but also from conflicting fundamental attitudes towards film. The white telephone films......
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