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Benedetta Piccio

Benedetta Piccio

(Italy)
Benedetta Piccio is a third-year PhD student at Edinburgh Napier University, at the Business School. Her thesis project is titled Women, Festival Leaders, and Social Transformations: An International Comparison. She is looking at feminist studies and movements, events management, with specific attention to festivals and women leadership. Benedetta has an international academic and working background in Scotland, Spain, Australia, and Italy, including working at university as a tutor and assistant professor at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. She has been doing a student placement with Creative Informatics, researching the virtual 2020 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Currently, she works as a public engagement event assistant for different projects at Edinburgh Napier University.
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pedinamento

A highly influential ideologue of neorealism, scriptwriter and director Cesare Zavattini suggested “pedinare,” the Italian word for stalking or shadowing, as a technique for filmmaking. Pedinare in cinema entailed “tailing someone like a detective, not determining what the character does but seeking to find out what is about to ensue.” The etymology of the word in Italian suggests “legwork” as it is derived from the Italian word for foot, “piede.” It is possible to suggest that the proliferation of images of walking in Italian Neorealism is closely linked to the technique of pedinamento, not because all neorealist filmmakers were followers of Zavattini, but because going out onto the street to encounter the everyday life of post-war Italian cities and creating cinematic tools to articulate these encounters were major concerns for the filmmakers of that era.

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