Fernaldo Di Giammatteo

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Fernaldo Di Giammatteo (born November 15, 1922 in Turin , † January 30, 2005 in Bologna ) was an Italian film critic , historian and documentary filmmaker .

Life

Di Giammatteo wrote for many years as a critic, historian and essayist on many areas of film for the Gazzetto Del Popolo and La Stampa and in 1957 published one of the first Italian reference works, the “Filmlexicon degli autori e delle opere” (Edizioni di Bianco e Nero , Rome). He was also a co-founder of the magazine "Rassegna del film". Between 1969 and 1975 he was Vice President of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia . From 1982 to 1993 he headed the “Mediateca Regionale Toscana”.

At the beginning of the 1960s he made two documentaries . La lunga marcha de Pechino deals with the founding of the People's Republic of China ; God with us analyzes Germany around 1900.

A prize dedicated to film criticism bears Di Giammatteo's name.

Works

  • 1957: Filmlexicon degli autori e delle opere
  • 1985: Dizionario universale del cinema (Editori Riuniti, Rome)
  • 1994: Lo sguardo inquieto. Storia del cinema italiano 1940-1990 (La Nuova Italia, Florence)
  • 1998: Storia del cinema (Marseilles / Venice)
  • 1999: Milestones. I trenta film che hanno segnato la storia del cinema (Utet, Turin)
  • 2002: Introduzione al cinema (Mondadori)
  • 2003: Che cos'è il cinema (Monadori)
  • 2004: Dizionario dei capolavori del cinema (Mondandori)

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I registi, Gremese 2002, p. 153
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personal data
SURNAME Di Giammatteo, Fernaldo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian film critic, historian and documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Turin
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 2005
Place of death Bologna