{"product_id":"9781501316975","title":"Cesare Zavattini’s Neo-realism and the Afterlife of an Idea : An Intellectual Biography","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eCesare Zavattini’s Neo-realism and the Afterlife of an Idea\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): David Brancaleone\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow many Zavattinis are there? During a life spanning most of the twentieth century, the screenwriter who wrote \u003ci\u003eSciuscià\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBicycle Thieves\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMiracle in Milan\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eUmberto D.\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“This extensively researched and intricately informative biography of Zavattini fills a void in film scholarship. The difficulty in tackling Zavattini is achieving insightful analysis due to the rarely mentioned and forgotten aspects and periods of his career; the author ably includes such episodes such as \u003ci\u003eLa porta del cielo\u003c\/i\u003e and La \u003ci\u003everitaaaà\u003c\/i\u003e. Given the breath of information from sources accessed and discussed by the author, in particular from the Zavattini archive, this book offers important cultural analysis and information that a reader one hundred years from now should be able to grasp and enjoy.” —\u003ci\u003eCarlo Celli, Professor of Italian, Bowling Green State University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781501316975\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40790553788622,"sku":"9781501316975","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_2c1b4fc6-fa8f-424c-bb47-d93570a9773d.jpg?v=1642318079","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781501316975","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}