Neorealism and the "New" Italy: Compassion in the Development of Italian Identity

__Neorealism and the "New" Italy__ centers on neorealist Italian artists' use of compassion as a vehicle to express their characters' interactions. Simonetta Milli Konewko proposes that compassion as an emotion may be activated to unify certain individuals and communities and investigates the mechanisms that allowed compassion to operate during the postwar period. Aiming to produce a deeper understanding of the ways in which Italy is re-encoded and reconstructed, this book explores the formation of Italian identity and redefines neorealism as a topic of investigation. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction....Pages 1-7 Front Matter....Pages 9-12 The Italian Roots of Neorealism....Pages 13-21 Neorealism and Films....Pages 23-35 Neorealism and Literature....Pages 37-46 Emotions in Neorealism....Pages 47-54 Front Matter....Pages 55-56 The Nature of Compassion....Pages 57-63 Compassion and Pity, Sympathy, and Empathy....Pages 65-70 Occurrences of Compassion....Pages 71-75 Rethinking Compassion in Light of Neorealism....Pages 77-85 The Discourse of Compassion During Fascism....Pages 87-110 Front Matter....Pages 111-115 Compassion in Ginzburg’s Depictions of Family Relationships....Pages 117-132 Moravia’s Representation of Compassion....Pages 133-157 Women, Compassion, and the Resistance Movement in L’Agnese va a morire ....Pages 159-177 Compassion and the Construction of Women’s Identity in Rome, Open City ....Pages 179-200 Front Matter....Pages 201-203 Compassion in Survival in Auschwitz ....Pages 205-224 Compassion in Smoke over Birkenau ....Pages 225-242 Back Matter....Pages 243-272