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INTERMEDIA ZAVATTINI:
PROJECTS IN VISUAL AND PRINT CULTURE, 1930-1960
In Anglo-American film culture, Cesare Zavattini (1902-1989) is mainly, if not exclusively, known as Italian neorealism’s most lucid and talented screenwriter. For a creative figure who over the course of seven decades worked as journalist, editor, essayist, novelist, poet, cultural organizer, and painter, such diminutive record is dramatically deficient. One suspects that it is also severely misleading. The panel aims at a reassessment of the significance of his broad contribution to Italian visual and print culture through specific examinations of his successful, unfinished, and failed projects.
Please submit via email a 2/300-word abstract of the presentation, a brief biographical note, and requests for audio-visual equipment to [log in to unmask] by December 15th, 2017.
Chair and Organizer:
Giorgio Bertellini (University of Michigan): [log in to unmask]