Ora Gelley is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at North Carolina State University.

This study considers the collaboration between Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman in light of the neorealist aesthetic, re-examining the director's immediate postwar works in relation to the contemporary discussion on Italian national identity.

Selected Contents: 1. Rossellini's War Trilogy: Italian Cinema and National Identity 1945 - 50 2. Ingrid Bergman's Star Persona: Blurring the Boundaries 3. Ingrid Bergman and the Alien Space of Stromboli 4. Europa '51: The Face of the Star in Neorealism's Urban Landscape 5. Voyage to Italy: The Powers of Dispersion