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Gian Piero Brunetta (Cesena, 20 May 1942) is an Italian film critic,
film historian, and academic.
He is a Full Professor of Cinema History and Criticism at the
University of Padua, he is known for being the author of an important four-volume work dedicated to the history of Italian cinema (Storia del cinema italiano, Editori Riuniti).[1][2]
Biography
Born to
Venetian parents displaced during the
Second World War, he graduated from the University of Padua in 1966 with a thesis on the formation of film theory and criticism in Italy in the 1930s and the genesis of the idea of neorealism. His training is led by masters such as
Gianfranco Folena and
Sergio Bettini: hence his semiotic and linguistic interests with those of narratology and contemporary art history.
From the second half of the seventies his work takes on a historical dimension.
He has directed various film series and has collaborated with the newspaper
La Repubblica and with numerous Italian and foreign literary and film magazines.
He collaborated with the director
Gianfranco Mingozzi for the television programs The Last Diva: Francesca Bertini (1982) and Stories of cinema and emigrants (1988), and was a consultant for the film Splendor (1988), by Ettore Scola.
He has curated major exhibitions on Italian art (Painting with light for the Palazzo Grassi exhibition ; Italian art, 1900–1945, in 1989), as well as eleven videos for the exhibition La città del cinema di Cinecittà (1995).
He conceived and edited the Radiocelluloid radio broadcast and conceived and directed the exhibition The distant war (Museo della guerra, Rovereto, 1985).
In 1995 he was appointed commander of the Italian Republic. On November 16, 2017 he received the "
Antonio Feltrinelli" award from the
Accademia dei Lincei.