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Cesare Zavattini's Neo-realism and the Afterlife of An Idea: Intellectual Biography
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How many Zavattinis are there? During a life spanning most of the twentieth century, the screenwriter who wrote
,
, and
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.