To conclude the series of eoncounters ‘‘Biografie, sulle tracce della storia” we are delighted to host David Brancaleone, Lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies at the Limerick School of Art and Design, TUS, who will explore the life and works of the renowned Italian neorealist screenwriter Cesare Zavattini.
During a life spanning most of the twentieth century, the screenwriter who wrote world classics Sciuscià, Bicycle Thieves, Miracle in Milan, and Umberto D., and Oscar-winning Two Women, was also a public intellectual, a theorist, a tireless campaigner to change the film industry, a man of letters, a painter and poet, having already been in the 1930s a pioneer in illustrated magazine publishing.
The talk will be held in English.
Don’t miss it!
A wine reception will be offered to participants at the end of the meeting.
Free access with free booking on this page.
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Cesare Zavattini: Pioneer of Italian cinema, pioneer of 1930s Italian magazine publishing, the filmmaker who led the battles for a new cinema from the 1940s to Venice ’68.
This is a personal account of writing the first biography about Cesare Zavattini, one of the fathers of Neo-realism, and the many surprises along the way, illustrated with film excerpts and slides to share some of his achievements.
David Brancaleone
David Brancaleone is a Lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies, Limerick School of Art and Design, TUS, where he teaches history and theory of art and design, including film, photography, and visual culture. He read art history at Rome University, and was awarded an MA in Italian Studies at University College London and a doctorate at the Warburg Institute, University of London, funded by the Accademia dei Lincei.
In 2021, Bloomsbury Academic published his Cesare Zavattini’s Neo-realism and the Afterlife of an Idea. An Intellectual Biography and the first two volumes of translations in Cesare Zavattini, Selected Writings. In 2019, he published a two-volume Zavattini, il Neo-realismo e il Nuovo Cinema latino-americano which served the curation of a major retrospective exhibition: Zavattini Beyond Borders, in Reggio Emilia in 2020.
