Umberto Barbaro

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Umberto Barbaro (born January 3, 1902 in Acireale , † March 19, 1959 in Rome ) was an Italian film theorist , critic , screenwriter and documentary filmmaker .

Life

Barbaro initially wrote reviews for Italia Letteraria , Bianco e Nero , Si gira and L'Unità , soon also theoretical treatises, taught at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC) and wrote several scripts for important films. In addition, he wrote standard works on (not only Italian) film, many of which were only published posthumously. He also translated works by his colleagues Béla Balázs , Rudolf Arnheim and Wsewolod Pudowkin . He also wrote fine literature and translated Gogol and Diderot .

Barbaro is considered to be the "inventor" of the term neorealism in Italian culture and a representative of a Marxist approach that considered a spontaneous and collective film aesthetic to be superior to theater.

In 1933 he was responsible as a director for a documentary film and subsequently wrote almost ten films for directors such as Goffredo Alessandrini and Luigi Chiarini . In 1938 he shot his only feature film, L'ultima nemica , where he contributed not only the idea and script but also the editing . The film didn't leave a lasting impression. After the Second World War , he turned back to documentary films and made two films about Italian painters. In 1947 he became head of the CSC

The Roman Biblioteca del Cinema is named after Barbaro.

Works

  • 1939: Soggetto e sceneggiatura
  • 1960: Il film e il risarcimento marxista dell'arte
  • 1962: Servitù e grandezza del cinema
  • 1973: Il cinema tedesco

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ homepage.univie.ac.at/elisabeth.fraller/neorealismus.doc
  2. ↑ http://www.jrank.org/literature/pages/15174/Umberto-Barbaro.html
  3. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I Registi, Gremese 2002, p. 41.
  4. ↑ http://www.bibliotecadelcinema.it/
personal data
SURNAME Barbaro, Umberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian film theorist, critic, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Acireale
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1959
Place of death Rome