L'utopia cinematografica

by Guido Aristarco

288 pages, Paperback

First published June 19, 1984

About the author

Born in Fossacesia, Chieti, at very young age Aristarco debuted as a film critic for the newspapers La Gazzetta di Mantova and Il Corriere Padano and then for the magazine Cinema. A dean of the Marxist film criticism, influenced by the thought of Antonio Gramsci and György Lukács, for whom he wrote the preface of The Destruction of Reason, in 1952 he founded and directed (until his death) the film magazine Cinema Nuovo. He was also the first university professor of Cinema in Italy, first in Turin and later in Rome.