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evolution of Zavattini’s idea of ethical cine-ma, particularly his activism in the Free Newsreels Collective and counterinforma-tion movement of the Sixties. The materials coming from two Italian collections of 1979, Neorealism etc. and the Cinematographic Diary, appear in English for the first time except for “Some Ideas on Cinema,” and
Considering the understandable space limits of this venue, we have selected three short samples of his wide-ranging interests and interventions. 2 In chronological order, the contributions deal with, respectively, painting, television, and the so-called free newsreels. Although these selections may inevitably exude an air of serendipity, they should also convey Zavattini’s militancy for more ...
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Jan 1, 2015 · Free Newsreels. by Cesare Zavattini. translated by Giorgio Bertellini and Courtney Ritter. B efore even being cinematic practice, free newsreels are meant. to be a political practice, a weapon ...
ship and German Occupation. Neorealism was a theory Zavattini continued to elaborate throughout his life in essays and interviews, including his support in the late Sixties for the Free Newsreels (Cine-giornali Liberi) movement, which in Italy involved documenting stu-dent protests in 1968, followed by widespread workers’ strikes during
Television’s directness and its ability to make clear and explicit that which is obscure is inseparable from the very concept of culture. Free Newsreels by Cesare Zavattini translated by Giorgio Bertellini and Courtney Ritter B efore even being cinematic practice, free newsreels are meant to be a political practice, a weapon against the country’s current regressive and repressive situation.
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 ...
