BOOK LAUNCH | Pasinetti: works of a leading figure in Italian film culture

Join professor Alberto Zambenedetti, Director of the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto, as he presents his latest work "Francesco Pasinetti: Soggetti e sceneggiature", a critical edition of Francesco Pasinetti’s scenarios and screenplays, most previously unpublished, which offers readers a way to explore his ideas about documentary and fiction film. The prolific author, director, critic, and scholar was able to complete only one feature film during his short life, Il Canale degli Angeli (1934), but his documentaries (some of which are lost) offer glimpse of the full extent of Pasinetti’s extraordinary creative output.

Francesco Pasinetti (1911–1949) was one of the leading figures of Italian film culture during the years straddling the Second World War. The first person in Italy to earn a university degree with a thesis on film history, he was a critic, historian, teacher, promoter, screenwriter, director, documentarian, and producer — a true total filmmaker. From his university years to his tenure as director of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Pasinetti published articles, books, and manuals, and he influenced the careers of Alida Valli, Michelangelo Antonioni, Francesco Maselli, and Glauco Pellegrini.

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