Cesare Zavattini Selected Writings Volumes 1 2 David Brancaleone by David Brancaleone 9781501317057, 9781501317088, 1501317059, 1501317083 instant download after payment.

This unprecedented collection of Cesare Zavattini's writings in English translation offers the first glimpse into the screenwriter's theoretical, political, and cultural ideas of cinema.

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.

Volume 2 brings to the fore Zavattini’s ever-evolving internal dialogue between diary writer, screenwriter, narrative writer, and politicalactivist. 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 providesa substantial anthology of texts translated from Neorealismo ecc. (1979),comprising Zavattini’s major essays, conference papers, unpublishedproduction 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.

Each text is preceded by an introduction, providing an essentialframe of reference to make these writings entirely accessible to the reader.