Cesare Zavattini: Selected Writings
Cesare Zavattini: Selected Writings
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A thoroughgoing enemy of didacticism and a passionate advocate of the convergence of theory and praxis, radical thinker and experimenter with revolutionary ideas, promulgator of a truly novel cinema that continues to inspire filmmakers from all over the world, the oeuvre of the formidable Italian screenwriter, director, and theorist of neorealism is made available for the first time in the English language in these two finely translated and presented volumes. Zavattini’s screenplays, articles, reports, papers, and letters, many of which never published before, disclose the true profundity and reach of his unique contribution to world cinema, and restore him to his rightful place in the intellectual history of the postwar decades.
A thoroughgoing enemy of didacticism and a passionate advocate of the convergence of theory and praxis, radical thinker and experimenter with revolutionary ideas, promulgator of a truly novel cinema that continues to inspire filmmakers from all over the world, the oeuvre of the formidable Italian screenwriter, director, and theorist of neorealism is made available for the first time in the English language in these two finely translated and presented volumes. Zavattini’s screenplays, articles, reports, papers, and letters, many of which never published before, disclose the true profundity and reach of his unique contribution to world cinema, and restore him to his rightful place in the intellectual history of the postwar decades.
David Brancaleone is Lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies, Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland, where he teaches history and theory of art, film, photography and visual culture. An art history graduate from La Sapienza, Rome, he gained an MA in Italian Studies at University College London, UK and, in 2002, his doctorate at the Warburg Institute, University of London, UK. In 2019, he published the two-volume Zavattini, il Neo-realismo e il Nuovo Cinema latino-americano which reconstructs and documents Zavattini’s cultural interventions in Latin America and his specific contribution to the global dimension of Neo-realism in the latter half of the twentieth century. This publication provided the critical and contextual basis for the curation of a major retrospective exhibition, ‘Zavattini oltre i confini’, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2019.
A thoroughgoing enemy of didacticism and a passionate advocate of the convergence of theory and praxis, radical thinker and experimenter with revolutionary ideas, promulgator of a truly novel cinema that continues to inspire filmmakers from all over the world, the oeuvre of the formidable Italian screenwriter, director, and theorist of neorealism is made available for the first time in the English language in these two finely translated and presented volumes. Zavattini’s screenplays, articles, reports, papers, and letters, many of which never published before, disclose the true profundity and reach of his unique contribution to world cinema, and restore him to his rightful place in the intellectual history of the postwar decades.
David Brancaleone is Lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies, Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland, where he teaches history and theory of art, film, photography and visual culture. An art history graduate from La Sapienza, Rome, he gained an MA in Italian Studies at University College London, UK and, in 2002, his doctorate at the Warburg Institute, University of London, UK. In 2019, he published the two-volume Zavattini, il Neo-realismo e il Nuovo Cinema latino-americano which reconstructs and documents Zavattini’s cultural interventions in Latin America and his specific contribution to the global dimension of Neo-realism in the latter half of the twentieth century. This publication provided the critical and contextual basis for the curation of a major retrospective exhibition, ‘Zavattini oltre i confini’, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2019.