Pinocchio, puppets and modernity : the mechanical body / edited by Katia Pizzi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pizzi, Katia.

Series:

Children's literature and culture.

Children's literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collodi, Carlo, 1826-1890--Influence.

Collodi, Carlo.

Collodi, Carlo, 1826-1890. Avventure di Pinocchio.

Civilization, Modern, in literature.

Literature and technology--History--19th century.

Literature and technology.

Literature and technology--History--20th century.

Mechanization in literature.

Pinocchio (Fictitious character).

Puppets in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study assesses the significance of Pinocchio in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in addition to his status as the creature of a nineteenth century traversed by a cultural enthusiasm for dummies, puppets, and marionettes. This collection identifies him as a figure characterized by a 'fluid identity,' informed with transition, difference, joie de vivre, otherness, displacement, and metamorphosis, making Pinocchio a truly modern, indeed postmodern and posthuman, cultural icon. Pinocchio, Puppets and Modernity explores this crucial and as yet little visited field, reassess

Contents:

Cover; Pinocchio, puppets and modernity : the mechanical body; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgements; Bibliographical Note; Note on Translations; Introduction; Chapter 1 : Carlo Collodi and the Rhythmical Body: Between Giuseppe Mazzini and George Sand; Chapter 2 : Puppets on a String: The Unnatural History of Human Reproduction; Chapter 3 : Workshops of Creation, Filthy and Not: Collodi's Pinocchio and Shelley's Frankenstein; Chapter 4 : The Manufacture of a Modern Puppet Type: The Anatomy of Alfred Jarry's Monsieur Ubu and its Signifi cance

Chapter 5 Man is Non-Man: Mannequins, Puppets and Marionettes in the Theatre of Dario FoChapter 6 : Unpainting Collodi's Fireplace; Chapter 7 : Pinocchio and the Mechanical Body: Luciano Folgore's Papers at the Getty Research Institute Library; Chapter 8 : The Myth of Pinocchio: Metamorphosis of a Puppet from Collodi's Pages to the Screen; Chapter 9 : The Watchful Mirror: Pinocchio's Adventures Re-created by Roberto Benigni; Chapter 10 : Beyond the Mechanical Body: Digital Pinocchio; List of Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-136-62049-4

1-283-46208-7

9786613462084

1-136-62050-8

0-203-67978-4

9780203679784

OCLC:

798531531