One must think of these works in relation to one another under a common criteria, much in the same way that we can examine a catalog of Italian neorealist films or a compilation of magical realist novels. (killscreen.com)
Her noirish mass media representations have always charmed by tapping into Italian neorealist film styles, crime dramas and a host of other 20th century representations from theatre and film. (garthgreenan.com)
Legend has it that an American moneyman agreed to finance Vittorio De Sica's 1948 neorealist classic Bicycle Thieves with one stipulation — that the role of the common laborer whose meager capital is stolen be played by Cary Grant. (criterion.com)