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Zavattini articulated a range of ideas about programming in two letters sent, respectively, on January. 1959 and February 6, 1961, to writer and television personality Mario Soldati and RAI artistic director Sergio Pugliese. See Archivio Cesare Zavattini, Biblioteca Panizzi, Reggio Emilia, Italy (S622/21 and P691/5).
understanding of how Zavattini’s narrative in the Thirties both foreshadows and differs from his later neorealism. The second volume of Selected Writings includes a representative corpus of Zavatti-ni’s theoretical and critical interventions in the form of essays, interviews, and confer-ence papers. Starting from the prewar writ-
Jan 1, 2015 · Abstract. Outside of Italy, Cesare Zavattini (1902–1989) is widely known as one of the key screenwriters and theorists of Italian neorealism. This is, however, a most reductive...
Dec 31, 2000 · Cesare Zavattini. Published 31 December 2000. Art, Philosophy. Cesare Zavattini (1902-89) was the central theoretician of neorealism, although he owes a debt, as do almost all intellectuals of the left, to the Marx ist philosopher Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937).
Perhaps Zavattini’s best known declaration of neorealism, “Some Ideas on the Cinema,” was pub-lished in the December 1952 issue of La Rivista del Cinema Italiano, and first appeared in an English translation in the October–December 1953 issue of Sight and Sound, and later in numerous books on film theory and neorealism.
Zavattini on behalf of the Communist Party’s production house unitelefilm, in the 1970s, was instrumental in establishing contact with Zavattini’s son Arturo.
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Zavattini’s views on Neorealism emphasized a documentary style of film realism, the use of nonprofessional actors, a rejection of Hollywood conventions, real locations as opposed to studio sets, an avoidance of dramatic or intrusive editing, and contemporary, everyday subject matter about the common man.
