Antonio Napolitano

Antonio Napolitano was born 1928 in Naples, Italy. He is an Italian film critic.

Antonio Napolitano

Biography

From 1947 to 1959, Napolitano was a member and subsequently an executive of the «Circolo napoletano del cinema» and other cineclubs.

In 1959, after teaching English, he went to England to get his degree in General linguistics.

From 1956 he has been contributing with essays to literature and cinema magazines: .( L’Italia Letteraria, Fr., Il Letterato, Cs., L’Altro Cinema, Mi., Cinema Sud a.s.o.).

In 1960, he won the Pasinetti-Cinema Nuovo Price, Venice, prize for an essay on Ingmar Bergman and started writing for Cinema Nuovo (Mi.), Civiltà dell’immagine (Florence) and, later on, for Film critica (Rome) a.s.o.

In 1961, he was appointed an ordinary teacher of English Literature in Italian High Schools.

By these reviews he has been sent to Mostra di Venezia and festivals in Locarno, Karlovy Vary and some others.

In 1969, he took a Ph.degree in “Film history and criticism” and taught for several years in State and private Universities.

Since 1963 up to 1975, he was in the Managing Committee of the Incontri internazionali del Cinema in Sorrento and of Italian Centre of Filmology.

Several of his essays have been translated into Danish, English, Russian, American and quoted in foreign books on Cinema.

At present he still lives in Vomero, Naples.

Bibliography

In English

Neorealism in Anglo-Saxon cinema, in Italian neorealism and global cinema, edité par Laura E. Ruberto et Kristi M. Wilson, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8143-3324-2

In Italian

Cinema e narrativa, Incontri internazionali del cinema, Naples 1965
Film significato e realtà, Edizioni scientifiche italiane, Naples 1966
Saggi di storia e critica del Cinema, La Buona Stampa, Naples 1969
Robert J. Flaherty, La nuova Italia, Florence, 1975
Mezzogiorno, questione aperta, Coll. per il Cinema, AA.VV., Bari, 1981
Ideogrammi, Lalli Ed., Florence, 1990
Il verde del Vomero, Lettere Italiane AGE, Naples 1997
Totò, uno e centomila, Tempo Lungo, Naples 2001
G. Leopardi. Un taccuino napoletano, Ist. Culturale del Mezzogiorno, Naples 2007
Il memoriale di Seneca. Un galateo del ben vivere e del ben morire, Ist. Culturale del Mezzogiorno, Naples 2008
Cinema d’autore off Hollywood, ed. Ist.Culturale del Mezzogiorno, Naples 2012

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