Umberto Barbaro
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 wrote for Italia LETTERARIA, Bianco e Nero, Si gira and L' Unità first reviews, soon, theoretical essays, taught at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC ) and wrote several screenplays for important films. In addition, he wrote the classic texts (not only Italian ) film, many of which were published posthumously. He also translated works of his colleagues Béla Balázs, Rudolf Arnheim and Vsevolod Pudovkin. In addition, he also wrote Beautiful literature and translated Gogol and Diderot.
Barbaro is considered the " inventor" of the term Neorealism in Italian culture and as representatives of a Marxist approach, the considered superior to a spontaneous and collective film aesthetics as the theater.
In 1933, he served as director for a documentary and wrote in the episode nearly ten films for directors such as Goffredo Alessandrini and Luigi Chiarini. In 1938, he made his only feature film, L'ultima nemica, where he next idea and screenplay also contributed the cut. The film left no lasting impression. After the Second World War, he turned back to the documentary reinforced and made two films about italian painters. In 1947 he became head of the C.S.C..
The Roman Biblioteca del Cinema called after Barbaro.