Watching pages, reading pictures : cinema and modern literature in Italy / edited by Daniela De Pau and Georgina Torello.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

De Pau, Daniela.

Torello, Georgina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures and literature--Italy.

Motion pictures and literature.

Film adaptations--Italy--History and criticism.

Film adaptations.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (450 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Italian cinema is internationally well-known for the ground-breaking experience of Neo-Realism, comedy ""Italian-Style,"" Spaghetti Westerns, and the horror movies of the seventies. However, what is rather unfamiliar to wider audiences is Italian cinema's crucial and enduring affair with literature. In fact, since the very beginning, literature has deeply influenced how Italian cinema has defined itself and grown. This book provides an empirical approach to this complex and fruitful relations...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; SECTION 1; TRANSLATION, ADAPTATION, TRANSPOSITION; LITERATURE AND CINEMA; FROM LITERATURE TO FILM; VADETECUM; SECTION 2; TARCHETTI'S FOSCA AND SCOLA'S PASSIONE D'AMORE; ARCHIBUGI, A "WRITER" ON THE SET; CRISTINA COMENCINI, NOVELIST AND FILMMAKER; OF BODY AND SOUL; FRANCESCO ROSI'S LA TREGUA; SECTION 3; ENGENDERING FIDELITY; LOOK WHO'S TALKING; UNTYING THE TANGLE; DOG BITES DOG; VISCONTI'S MELANCHOLIES BETWEEN MARCEL PROUST AND MARIO PRAZ; A WRITER CANNOT BELIEVE TWO STORIES AT ONCE; SECTION 4; BEYOND THE FIGURATIVE

FASCISM FROM STAGE TO SCREEN HOW TO DEAL WITH FEMALE PENETRATION AND NOT DIE IN THE ATTEMPT; WITH EYES WIDE SHUT; DECLARES PEREIRA; SECTION 5; THE AMPHIBOLIC NATURE OF PASOLINI'S THEOREM(S); ROMANZO CRIMINALE; IMPROVISATION AND NOVELISATION IN THE RECASTING OF ITALIAN IDENTITY IN NON CI RESTA CHE PIANGERE; TEXT-IMAGE, DEPARTURE AND RETURN; CONTRIBUTORS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Descripción basada en metadatos suministrados por el editor y otras fuentes.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-04323-4

9786612043239

1-4438-0302-2

OCLC:

830168208