Cesare Zavattini's neo-realism and the afterlife of an idea : an intellectual biography /

Brancaleone, David,

Cesare Zavattini's neo-realism and the afterlife of an idea : an intellectual biography / David Brancaleone. - First edition. - London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021 - 1 online resource (368 pages).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Almost no English scholarship addresses Cesare Zavattini, the screenwriter of some of the best known films in the history of world cinema?-including SciusciƔa , Miracle in Milan , and Bicycle Thieves ?-and the scholarship that does presents only the narrowest of views on the multi-dimensional Zavattini. In Cesare Zavattini's Neo-realism and the Afterlife of an Idea , David Brancaleone instead presents a vital portrait of the screenwriter for the first time, exploring his history as an active Neo-realist organizer, Modernist writer, political protestor, and celebrated filmmaker in the light of unprecedented access to archival material. Through a multidisciplinary lens that examines Zavattini's cultural politics, interventions into press, television, and journalism, experimental filmmaking, and personal history, Brancaleone reconstructs the extent of Zavattini's contribution to cinema and culture."--

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Zavattini, Cesare, 1902-1989.


Screenwriters--Italy--Biography.
Biography: arts & entertainment

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