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Born in Luzzara near Reggio Emilia in northern Italy, on 20 September 1902, Zavattini studied law at the University of Parma, but devoted himself to writing. He started his career in Gazzetta di Parma. [1] In 1930 he relocated to Milan, and worked for the book and magazine publisher Angelo Rizzoli. After Rizzoli began producing films in 1934 ...
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 ...
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
Sep 22, 2020 · September 22, 2020 3:06pm. Alfonso Cuarón: Roma, 2018. Courtesy Netflix. “The cinema,” claims screenwriter Cesare Zavattini, the chief theorist of what came to be known as Italian neorealism ...
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 ...
Un Paese (1955) is an exceptional case in the history of photography as the first ever-significant photo-book published in Italy, the result of a trans-cultural collaboration between two renowned authors, the American photographer Paul Strand and the Italian screenwriter Cesare Zavattini. The history of this book is well known in the Italian literature, and the image on the cover, “The ...
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How many Zavattinis are there? During a life spanning most of the twentieth century, the screenwriter who wrote Sciuscià, 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.
