Abstract
Italian neorealism is a foundational realist cinema movement, but one that has posed a conundrum for realist criticism because it is pervaded throughout by melodrama. Because aesthetic theory (and common sense) defines realism and melodrama against each other, the relationship between melodrama and realism in neorealist films has never been considered beyond opposition. Yet in Italian neorealism, melodrama and realism interact and at times even combine. I argue that examining this interaction is crucial to understanding neorealism fully, and suggest that the continual recurrence of melodrama and realism together necessitates a reconceptualization of aesthetic theory.
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