Cesare Zavattini’s Neo-realism and the Afterlife of an Idea: An Intellectual Biography

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Abstract

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. 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.

Original languageEnglish
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing Plc.
Number of pages459
ISBN (Electronic)9781501316982
ISBN (Print)9781501316982, 9781501316975
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2021

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