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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812768303321

Autore

Testa Carlo

Titolo

Masters of two arts : re-creation of European literatures in Italian cinema / / Carlo Testa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002

©2002

ISBN

1-4426-7711-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Collana

Toronto Italian Studies

Disciplina

791.43/6

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Italy

Motion pictures and literature - Italy

European literature

History

Film adaptations.

Electronic books.

Italien

Italy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Epigraphic Re-creations -- Goethe and Archibugi Italy, the Illegible Land: Mignon Has Left (1988) -- Kafka and Fellini Soteriology, Cinecitta-style: America and Intervista (1987) -- Coextensive Re-creations -- Gogol and Lattuada Fantastic Neorealism: The Overcoat (1952) -- Tolstoy and the Tavianis The Interminable Path of History: Father Sergius and The Night Sun (1990) -- The Re-creation to End All Creation -- Sade and Pasolini Requiem for a Utopia: Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) -- Mediated Re-creations -- Merimee, Bizet, and Rosi The Consummation of Meridionalism: Carmen (1984) -- Pasternak, Lean, and Moretti Hermits and Revolutionaries: Palombella rossa (1989) -- Hypertextual Re-creations -- Stendhal and Rossellini The Masterpiece Fights Back: Vanina Vanini (1961) -- Mann and Visconti One Sentry Falls: Death in Venice (1971).

Sommario/riassunto

Carlo Testa demonstrates that while pairings of famed directors and



writers are commonplace in modern Italian cinema, the study of the interrelation between Italian cinema and European literature has been almost completely neglected in film scholarship.