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Author:   David Brancaleone (Technological University of the Shannon, Ireland)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic USA
Weight:   1.726kg
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9781501317187

ISBN 10:   1501317180
Publication Date:   09 September 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Mixed media product
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Table of Contents

Volume One Introduction to Volume 1 Part one Pre-war 1 Stories from the Comic Trilogy (1931-41) 2 Chronicles from Hollywood (1927-33) 3 Scenario: The Nervous Tic Clinic (1936) 4 Miss Great Celebrity Signatures: Letter to Giuseppe Amato, 1 July 1938 5 Scenario: Miss Great Celebrity Signatures (1938) 6 Scenario: Everyone Should Have a Rocking Horse (1938) 7 Scenario: Five Poor Men in a Motorcar (1939) 8 Scenario: Toto the Good (1940) Part two Post-war 9 Scenario: Italy 1944 (1944) 10 Scenario: Sciuscia (1945) 11 Sciuscia: Letter to Massimo Ferrara, 6 July 1981 12 Scenario: Bicycle Thieves (1948) 13 'What We Want' (1950) 14 Scenario: The Great Deception (1948) 15 The Great Deception: Letter to Geza von Radvani, 9 March 1950 16 Scenario: First Communion (1949) 17 First Communion: Correspondence 18 Scenario: Bellissima (1950-1) 19 'The origins of Umberto D.' (1951) 20 Umberto D. in Zavattini's diary (1948-51) 21 Scenario: Umberto D. (1951) 22 Treatment: Umberto D. (1951) 23 Screenplay (extract): Umberto D. Umberto's Lodgings. The Kitchen. Dawn (1951) 24 Zavattini, Miracle in Milan, La Voce Repubblicana, 7 July 1951 25 Scenario: Miracle in Milan (1950) 26 Scenario: Italia mia (1951-2) 27 Un paese. Portrait of an Italian Village (1955) 28 The Story of Catherine: ANSA Press Comunique (1952) 29 Scenario: The Story of Catherine (1952) 30 Love in the City: Voice-over and dialogue excerpt (1953) 31 The Story of Catherine: Interview (1962) 32 Scenario: A Child's Funeral (1954) 33 Scenario: The Roof (1955) 34 Scenario: Mexico mio (1955-8) 35 Scenario: Short Love Story (1958) 36 Correspondence with Carlos Velo (1955-8) 37 Scenario: Diary of a Woman (1959) 38 Scenario: Revolucion en Cuba (1960) 39 Scenario: Anti-racist Film (1960) 40 Fernando Birri, Letter to Zavattini, 9 March 1957 41 Scenario: The Little Dictator (1960) 42 Treatment: The Little Dictator (1960) 43 Scenario: Colour versus Colour (1960) 44 Scenario: Censorship 1960 45 Scenario: The Newsreel for Peace (1962) 46 Scenario: The Guinea Pig (1962) 47 Scenario: The Mysteries of Rome (1962) 48 Scenario: Assault on Television (1962) 49 Scenario: Why? (1963) 50 Scenario: Free Newsreels (1967) 51 Scenario: The Seven Cervi Brothers (1968) 52 Scenario: Revolution (1969) 53 Adapting The Children of Sanchez (1971) 54 Scenario: Italia mia tv version (1974-6) 55 Scenario: Aldo Moro, Before, During, After (1978) 56 Scenario: The Truuuuth (1981) 57 Transmission test: Telesubito (1983) Volume Two Introduction to Volume 2 Part one Pre-war 1 'The Directors' Gift', from The Hollywood Chronicles (1933) 2 'The Frustrations of a Young Scriptwriter' (1936) 3 Letters to filmmakers, Il Settebello (1938-9) 4 'The Best Dreams' (1940) 5 'Notebook' (1940-1) 6 Radio EIAR Interview (1942) 7 'One Minute of Cinema' (1942) 8 The Imola Conference (1942) 9 'The Importance of the Script' (1942-3) Part two Post-war 10 Radio interview: Fascism and post-war Italy (1983) 11 'Poetry, Italian Cinema's only Business' (1945) 12 'Three Questions' (1946) 13 'Italy Wants to Know' (1947) 14 'I'm an Optimist' (1949) 15 'Is Cinema going to Die?' (1949) 16 Perugia Conference: 'Cinema and Modern Man' (1949) 17 Letter to Father Morlion (1949) 18 'Scrap Scripts' (1950) 19 'Italian Cinema Tomorrow' (1950) 20 'Taking Issue with the Present' (1951) 21 Interview: 'Cinema, Zavattini and Reality' (1951) 22 'Some Ideas on the Cinema' (1952) 23 'What Is a Flash Film' (1952) 24 Flash Film: 'A Development of Neo-realism' (1952) 25 Enzo Muzii attacks Zavattini: 'Adult Realism' (1953) 26 'Theses on Neo-realism' (1953) 27 The Story of Catherine in Zavattini's diary (1952) 28 Voice-over: Love in the City and an excerpt of dialogue (1953) 29 Shadowing (1953) 30 Parma Conference: 'Neo-realism as I see it' (1953) 31 Zavattini's first trip to Cuba in his diary (1953) 32 The Havana Conference (1953) 33 Milan Conference (1954) 34 Neo-realism as ethics (1954) 35 Transcendence in Zavattini's diary (1954) 36 Neo-realism and Italia mia. Correspondence (1952-8) 37 Un paese. Portrait of an Italian Village. Correspondence (1952-3) 38 Zavattini, 'Strand the Photographer, 13 April 1953' 39 Zavattini, Introduction to Cinema Nuovo photographic stories (1955) 40 Alfredo Guevara, 'Cuba', Cinema Nuovo, no. 51, 1955 41 Guevara, letter to Zavattini, 2 April 1955 42 Jose Massip to Zavattini, 26 April 1955 43 Guevara, letter to Zavattini, 4 May 1955 44 Zavattini, letter to Guevara, 12 May 1955 45 'Letter from Cuba' (1955) 46 Paris Conference: 'Useful Cinema' (1956) 47 'The Economic Conference of Cinema' (1956) 48 'The Loneliness of Zavattini' (1958) 49 Zavattini, letter to Guevara, 2 January 1959 50 Fernando Bernal, letter to Zavattini, 29 May 1959 51 Guevara, letter to Zavattini, 29 September 1959 52 Zavattini, letter to Tomas Gutierrez Alea, 1 November 1959 53 'How to Write a Screenplay' (1959) 54 icaic Conference, 15 January 1960 55 Zavattini, letter to Gaetano Afeltra, 15 February 1960 56 Zavattini, letter to Valentino Bompiani, 7 March 1960 57 Cuban filmmakers on Zavattini, Cine cubano (1960) 58 Hector Garcia Mesa and Eduardo Manet, Cine cubano (1960) 59 'Debating with the Opponents of Commitment' (1960) 60 Zavattini, letter to Lino Micciche, 2 November 1977 61 Zavattini, letter to Benito Alazraki, 30 October 1954 62 Prologue and Epilogue: El Neorrealismo cinematografico italiano (1955) 63 Mexican Bellas Artes Conference, 24 August 1955 64 Interview: 'Three films by Zavattini in Mexico', 5 September 1955 65 Zavattini, letter to Alvaro Beltrani, 20 October 1955 66 Carlos Velo, letter to Zavattini, 7 November 1955 67 Zavattini, letter to Felipe Carrera, 29 January 1956 68 Zavattini, letter to Velo, 5 October 1958 69 Elio Petri, letter to Zavattini, 1 April 1962 70 'An Act of Courage' (1960) and 'On Censorship' (1960) 71 Zavattini and television (1961) 72 The Newspaper for Peace (1961) 73 Interview: The confession film (1961) 74 The confession film: Correspondence (1962) 75 Interview: The Mysteries of Rome (1962-3) 76 'The Newsreel for Peace' (1962) 77 The Why? project (1963) 78 Rinascita round table (1965) 79 'First Conversation' (1966) 80 Interview: 'Four Questions Addressed to Filmmakers' (1967) 81 Zavattini, 'Why I am not resigning from anac' (1968) 82 'Free Newsreels' (1968) 83 Zavattini, letter to Luigi Chiarini (1968) 84 ANAC Press Conference, Venice Film Festival (1968) 85 'The Cine-camera as a Weapon' (1969) 86 'Pesaro Film Festival and Free Newsreels' (1969) 87 Political film (1970) 88 'The Free Newsreel of the Proletariat' (1971) 89 'Time and Cinema' (1975) 90 Grassroots interventions (1976) 91 Screenwriting (1977) 92 The Truuuuth (La veritaaaa) (1978-81) Bibliography Index

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A thoroughgoing enemy of didacticism and a passionate advocate of the convergence of theory and praxis, radical thinker and experimenter with revolutionary ideas, promulgator of a truly novel cinema that continues to inspire filmmakers from all over the world, the oeuvre of the formidable Italian screenwriter, director, and theorist of Neorealism is made available for the first time in the English language in these two finely translated and presented volumes. Zavattini's screenplays, articles, reports, papers, and letters, many of which never published before, disclose the true profundity and reach of his unique contribution to world cinema, and restore him to his rightful place in the intellectual history of the postwar decades. * Laura Rascaroli, Professor of Film and Screen Media, University College Cork, Ireland *

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David Brancaleone is Lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies, Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland, where he teaches history and theory of art, film, photography and visual culture. An art history graduate from La Sapienza, Rome, he gained an MA in Italian Studies at University College London, UK and, in 2002, his doctorate at the Warburg Institute, University of London, UK. In 2019, he published the two-volume Zavattini, il Neo-realismo e il Nuovo Cinema latino-americano which reconstructs and documents Zavattini's cultural interventions in Latin America and his specific contribution to the global dimension of Neo-realism in the latter half of the twentieth century. This publication provided the critical and contextual basis for the curation of a major retrospective exhibition, 'Zavattini oltre i confini', Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2019.

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