Paolo Benvenuti
Il pittore con la macchina da presa
Abstract
The essay analyzes Paolo Benvenuti’s cinema, revealing his poetics suspended between history, painting, and epic theater. Through in-depth interviews, unpublished and archival materials, it reconstructs the originality of an author who conceives cinema as a pedagogical and maieutic act: a tool to inspire reflection and critical thought. Crucial is the rigor in choosing the point of view: every shot becomes an act of deliberate storytelling, where aesthetics and ethics merge into a profound synthesis. Benvenuti thus emerges as “the painter with the camera”, transforming cinema into a timeless space of visual, ethical, and historical reflection.
Keywords
Paolo Benvenuti; Cinema; Maieutic; Ethic; NarrativeDOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0610-5ISBN
9791221506105, 9791221506105, 9791221506037, 9791221506099, 9791221506112Publisher
Firenze University PressPublisher website
https://www.fupress.com/Publication date and place
Florence, 2025Series
Strumenti per la didattica e la ricerca, 227Classification
Theatre studies


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