Cesare Zavattini: Selected Writings

Cesare Zavattini: Selected Writings offers, for the first time in English, a substantive selection of the Italian screenwriter's writings across two volumes. 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, including the flash—film (film lampo), the inquiry film (film inchiesta), cinema as encounter (cinema d’incontro), the diary f...