Parviz Shafa's thesis was on Italian Neo-Realism under the title of "The Nature and Origin of the Italian Neo-Realism."
Table of Contents:
Chapter I - The White Telephone Era Chapter II - New-Realism, and Its Meaning Chapter III - Roberto Rosellini Chapter IV - Vitorio De Sica
Chapter V - Cesare Zavattini Chapter VII - Luchino Visconti
Chapter VIII - The Fall of Neo-Realism
"A common bond links all the various neo-realist tendencies, and it is love of men, of the 'common man's movement,' that is man and his relationships outside and beyond himself. These relationships become the nucleus for a complicated change in the pattern of living, an existence which becomes co-existence."
With "Paul Mazursky" (left), the great American director of such films as: Next Stop, Greenwich Village, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice... during the 5th annual Tiburon International Film Festival in 2006.
Parviz Shafa, writer, scholar and university professor was born in Mashhad, Iran. After high school he went to the United States to study film. After completing his studies at San Francisco State University, he went back to Iran and started teaching film at the School of Dramatic Arts in Tehran. At the same time, he began writing and translating numerous articles in different film journals, which has continued to the present time. He has written and translated countless articles, and several books including: Viva Mexico, Cinema of the Time, Guerrilla Cinema, Cinema in Africa, Fascism in Cinema....His latest translation books are Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, War is a force that gives us meaning and: Oliver Stone's America.
Parviz Shafa lived in the San Francisco Bay Area until he passed away on August 22, 2017.
We will keep his Memory Alive.