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Encyclopedia > Alessandro Blasetti

Alessandro Blasetti (3 July 1900, Rome, Latium, Italy, 1 February 1987, Rome, Lazio, Italy was an Italian film director who influenced Italian neorealism. He was president of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1967. July 3 is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 181 days remaining. ... 1900 is a common year starting on Monday. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Left-Wing Democrats) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000... Latium (Lazio in Italian) is a region of central Italy, bordered by Tuscany, Umbria, Abruzzo, Molise, Campania and the Tyrrhenian Sea. ... February 1 is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Left-Wing Democrats) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000... Latium (now Lazio in Italian) is a region of central Italy, bordered by Tuscany, Umbria, Abruzzo, Molise, Campania and the Tyrrhenian Sea. ... Italian neorealism is a film movement lasting from about 1943 to 1952. ...


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Interpreting the Risorgimento: Blasetti's 1860 and the legacy of motherly love.(Alessandro Blasetti) - Italica - ... (179 words)
Interpreting the Risorgimento: Blasetti's 1860 and the legacy of motherly love.(Alessandro Blasetti)
Alessandro Blasetti's 1860 has recently been the focus of literary and film criticism, which analyzed various aspects of the film, including the didactic and ideological nature of the director's interpretation of the Risorgimento.
Critics have traced, for example, the origin of his cinematic narrative to Soviet realist films and to Macchiaioli painters (Dalle Vacche 105; Landy 184; Hill "The Art of History").
Bio for Alessandro Blasetti on MSN Movies (104 words)
Alessandro Blasetti was one of the premiere Italian directors of the 1930s and was later considered one of the fathers of Italian neorealism.
He was originally educated as a lawyer, but after completing law school he found journalism more interesting and became a film critic for a daily newspaper.
Blasetti is the director who in 1952 created the episodic film genre that became so popular in Italian cinema over the next twenty years.
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