Bianco e Nero

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Bianco e Nero
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Cover of Bianco e Nero featuring actor Vittorio Gassman.
CategoriesFilm magazine
FrequencyBimonthly
Founded1937
First issueJanuary 1937
Country Italy
Based inRome
Language Italian
OCLC 191715058

Bianco e Nero (Italian : Black and White) is an Italian film journal. [1] It is the oldest film publication in Italy. [2]

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History and profile

Bianco e Nero was founded in 1937 by Luigi Chiarini as the official organ of the drama school Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. [2] [3] Its first issue appeared in January that year. [4] Bianco e Nero was the official media outlet of the Centro Sperimentale della Cinematografia in Cinecittà based in Rome. [4]

Bianco e Nero was started as a monthly journal, and its contents included reviews and essays on film pedagogy and theory. [2] [3] Its first director was Luigi Freddi. [3] Since 1939, the magazine also published a series of special monographic books on history, form and technique of cinema. [3] It temporarily ceased publication between 1944 and 1946 because of World War II and resumed in 1947. [2] In 1999 the journal changed its spelling in Bianco & Nero and became a bimonthly. [2] The magazine is published by the University of Rome Press. [5]

The Spanish film magazine Objetivo was modeled on Bianca e Nero. [6]

See also

Notes

  1. "Journal List January 2015". FIAF. Archived from the original on 19 October 2015. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Gino Moliterno (2009). The A to Z of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow Press. ISBN   978-0810868960.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Maurizio De Benedictis (2003). Enciclopedia del Cinema. Treccani.
  4. 1 2 Donatella Valente (2021). Italian film avant-gardes, 1960-70: ontologies of the archive (PhD thesis). Birkbeck, University of London. p. 86.
  5. Letizia Ciotti Miller (Autumn 1961). "Reviewed Work: Bianco e Nero". Film Quarterly . 15 (1). JSTOR   1210589.
  6. O. Ferrán; G. Herrmann (2014). A Critical Companion to Jorge Semprún: Buchenwald, Before and After. Palgrave Macmillan US. p. 104. ISBN   978-1-137-43971-0.

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