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Abstract. This chapter examines the Italian cinema contexts for Cesare Zavattini’s radical reconception of the notion of the nonprofessional actor—that everyone acts his or her life on camera—during the waning of neorealism.
Cesare Zavattini Selected Writ-ings, a two-volume collection of texts representative of Zavattini’s volcanic output, translated and curated by David Brancaleone; and Cesare Zavattini’s Neo-realism and the Afterlife of an Idea: An Intellec-tual Biography, a companion volume by the same author. These volumes help flesh out
To truly understand what is in the name Cesare Zavattini, it might be useful to forget, for the moment, his association with filmmaker Vittorio De Sica, his work as screenwriter and editor on famous postwar films such as Shoeshine, Bicycle Thieves, Miracle in Milan, Umberto D., and his role as tutelary deity and apostle of neorealism. The name Cesare Zavattini, or Za for short, would be better ...
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Oct 20, 2020 · Introduction. Cesare Zavattini crossed the entire history of Italian sound cinema, from the 1930s until his death in 1989. If one can conceive of an Italian ‘independent-auteur cinema’, that is, a cinema capable of relating to experimentalism, attempting to free itself from traditional production modes and, at the same time, renewing the authors’ intellectual rapport with their audience ...
Mar 6, 2013 · “Some Ideas on the Cinema” was first published as an edited interview in La revista del cinema italiano 2, a film journal, in December of 1952. In thirteen parts and almost as many pages, Cesare Zavattini airs the neorealist theories for which he had become a major advocate after World War II. He, among a…
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Oct 9, 2024 · Cesare Zavattini (born September 29, 1902, Luzzara [Reggio Emilia], Italy—died October 13, 1989, Rome) was an Italian screenwriter, poet, painter, and novelist, known as a leading exponent of Italian Neorealism. Born into a humble family, Zavattini completed a law degree at the University of Parma and began a career in journalism and ...
