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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 ...
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.
reels” by Cesare Zavattini, Cineaste, Vol. III, No. 2, Fall 1969). Perhaps Zavattini’s best known declaration of neorealism, “Some Ideas on the Cinema,” was pub-lished in the December 1952 issue of La Rivista del Cinema Italiano, and first appeared in an English translation in the October–December 1953 issue of Sight and
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Some Ideas on the Cinema 223. When anyone (he could be the audience, the director, the critic, the State, or the Church) says, "STOP the poverty," i.e. stop the films about poverty, he is committing a moral sin. He is refusing to understand, to learn. And when he refuses to learn, consciously, or not, he is evading reality.
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
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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 ...
