a movement to depict directly poor people in society: originating in postwar Italy
Derived forms
neorealist (ˌneoˈrealist)
noun, adjective
neorealistic (ˌneoˌreaˈlistic)
adjective
neorealism in American English
(ˌnioʊˈriəˌlɪzəm)
noun
Cinema
a style or movement, esp. in Italy in the 1940s and early 1950s, in which the everyday lives of ordinary, usually poor, people are shown in harshly realistic settings in actual locations