21L011 The Film Experience
Professor David Thorburn

Lecture 18 - De Sica, Bicycle Thieves

1. Vittorio De Sica (1902-74)
   • 1942  The Children Are Watching Us
   • 1946   Shoeshine
   • 1948   Bicycle Thieves
   • 1950   Miracle in Milan
   • 1952   Umberto D
   • 1960   Two Women
   • 1971   The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
     
     
2.  Bicycle Thieves
   • Structure: organic form
   • Social themes
   • Character: father and son
   • The title