About Guido Aristarco
Lived 1918 – 1996 (aged 77). Guido Aristarco was an Italian screenwriter and film critic.
Guido Aristarco (7 October 1918 – 11 September 1996) was an Italian film critic and author.
Biography 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 edited (until his death) the film magazine Cinema Nuovo.
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Italian film critic and author (1918-1996)
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Guido Aristarco was born on 7 October 1918 in Fossacesia.
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Guido Aristarco died on 11 September 1996 in Rome.
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Guido Aristarco was a screenwriter and film critic.
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Guido Aristarco was Italian.
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