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Cesare Zavattini: Selected Writings (Hardcover)
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Cesare Zavattini: Selected Writings (Hardcover)
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Volume 1 makes available for the first time in English thirty-nine
scenarios and two treatments. Each text is preceded by an
introduction, providing an essential frame of reference to make
these writings entirely accessible to the reader. While nearly all
these texts belong to the post-war period, including the stories
for major post-war classics, there are also seven pre-war
raccontini, the narrative source of Zavattini's Modernist magical
realism, several fictional interviews and faux reportage, tinged
with irony aimed at Hollywood, complemented by several pre-war
scenarios. The book also features scenarios for Luchino Visconti's
Bellissima, Alessandro Blasetti's First Communion, De Sica's The
Roof and texts encompassing Zavattini's ethnographic vision, from
the redactions of Italia mia, interviews for Un paese, illustrated
with Paul Strand's photographs, to the scenarios for investigative
documentaries, including Why?, The Mysteries of Rome, The Guinea
Pig, the Free Newsreel Revolution, and the lucid Before, During
After, tackling Aldo Moro's assassination by the Red Brigades. The
book includes Zavattini's last word on cinema and society, the
testamentary satire La veritaaaa (1982), written, directed and
acted by Zavattini himself. Each text is preceded by an
introduction, providing an essential frame of reference to make
these writings entirely accessible to the reader. Volume 2 brings
to the fore Zavattini's ever-evolving internal dialogue between
diary writer, screenwriter, narrative writer, and political
activist. Essential to trace the origin of Zavattini's ideas on
cinema and understand his theorization of Neo-realism is the
inclusion of a selection of the filmmaker's pre-war writings. Most
of the book provides a substantial anthology of texts translated
from Neorealismo ecc. (1979), comprising Zavattini's major essays,
conference papers, unpublished production papers, interviews, and
vital excerpts from his correspondence and published cinematic
diary. Through translation and detailed cultural and contextual
commentary, translator and editor David Brancaleone traces not only
Zavattini's theory of the screen, but also his experimentation in
new film practices, including the flash-film (film lampo), the
inquiry film (film inchiesta), cinema as encounter (cinema
d'incontro), the diary film (film diario), the confessional film
(film-confessione), and the grass-roots community film (cinema
insieme or cinema di tanti per tanti). Each text is preceded by an
introduction, providing an essential frame of reference to make
these writings entirely accessible to the reader.
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