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

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (247 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.93356
• Soggetto topico: Civilization, Modern, in literature; Literature and technology - History - 19th century; Literature and technology - History - 20th century; Mechanization in literature; Pinocchio (Fictitious character); Puppets in literature
• Altri autori: PizziKatia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Pinocchio, puppets and modernity
• ISBN: 1-136-62049-4; 1-283-46208-7; 9786613462084; 1-136-62050-8; 0-203-67978-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778921103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Children's literature and culture.