(From Chapter 3 of "Marxism and Film", All rights reserved)
Marxist film in Italy outlived the neo-realist decade. Rocco and his Brothers are the last of what we can reasonably call the neo-realist films.
It is often said that neo-realism was buried by post-war Italian consumerism, and, as we shall see, there is a great deal of truth in that. But we ought not to forget that some of the greatest Marxist, or Marxist-inspired, Italian films were made in the 1960s and after, and that, without the work of the neo-realists, they would never have been made………..
Link: https://www.academia.edu/11116261/The_Ashes_of_Pasolini
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