Landscapes in between : environmental change in modern Italian literature and film / / Monica Seger

• Autore: Seger Monica <1980->
• Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Disciplina: 850.9/36
• Soggetto topico: Italian literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Italian literature - 21st century - History and criticism; Motion pictures - Italy - History; Landscapes in literature; Landscapes in motion pictures; Ecology in literature; Ecology in motion pictures
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Exploring the Interstice -- 2. Economic Expansion, Environmental Awareness in the Early Works of Italo Calvino -- 3. Pier Paolo Pasolini: Boundaries and Mergers in (Ex)Urban Film -- 4. Observation and Acknowledgment in Gianni Celati’s Verso la foce -- 5. Simona Vinci: Provincial Dwellings, Natural Beings -- 6. Daniele Ciprì and Franco Maresco: On Horizons and the Human -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Since its economic boom in the late 1950s, Italy has grappled with the environmental legacy of rapid industrial growth and haphazard urban planning. One notable effect is a preponderance of interstitial landscapes such as abandoned fields, polluted riverbanks, and makeshift urban gardens. Landscapes in Between analyses authors and filmmakers – Italo Calvino, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Gianni Celati, Simona Vinci, and the duo Daniele Ciprì and Franco Maresco – who turn to these spaces as productive models for coming to terms with the modified natural environment.Considering the ways in which sixty years’ worth of Italian literary and cinematic representations engage in the ongoing dialogue between nature and culture, Monica Seger contributes to the transnational expansion of environmental humanities. Her book also introduces an ecocritical framework to Italian studies in English. Rejecting a stark dichotomy between human construction and unspoilt nature, Landscapes in Between will be of interest to all those studying the fraught relationship between humanity and environment.
• Titolo autorizzato: Landscapes in between
• ISBN: 1-4426-1964-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459799603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Toronto Italian studies.