Cesare Zavattini's Neo-realism and the Afterlife of an Idea

An Intellectual Biography

Cesare Zavattini's Neo-realism and the Afterlife of an Idea
David Brancaleone
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23 Feb 2023 US
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9781501377358
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How many Zavattinis are there? During a life spanning most of the twentieth century, the screenwriter who wrote Sciuscia, Bicycle Thieves, Miracle in Milan, and Umberto D. was also a pioneering magazine publisher in 1930s Milan, a public intellectual, a theorist, a tireless campaigner for change within the film industry, a man of letters, a painter and a poet. This intellectual biography is built on the premise that in order to understand Zavattini' s idea of cinema and his legacy of ethical and political cinema (including guerrilla cinema), we must also tease out the multi-faceted strands of his interventions and their interplay over time. The book is for general readers, students and film historians, and anyone with an interest in cinema and its fate.
David Brancaleone is Lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies, Technological University of the Shannon, 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-volumeZavattini, 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.
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ISBN-13: 9781501377358
Published: 23 Feb 2023
Published In: United States
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
Height: 235mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 464

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