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Title Watching pages, reading pictures : cinema and modern literature in Italy / edited by Daniela De Pau and Georgina Torello
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 440 pages)
Contents Translation, adaptation, transposition -- Literature and cinema -- From literature to film -- Vadetecum -- Tarchetti's Fosca and Scola's Passione D'amore -- Archibugi, a "writer" on the set -- Critina Comencini, novelist and filmmaker -- Of body and soul -- Francesco Rosi's La Tregua -- 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 -- 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 -- 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
Summary Deals with significant Italian film adaptations from literary materials which greatly exemplify the variety of styles, view-points, and attitudes produced by such an alliance, throughout the different periods. This book discusses adaptations such as those that have followed trends and critical debates, making them, at times, rather problematic
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Some articles translated from the Italian
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Subject Motion pictures and literature -- Italy
Film adaptations -- History and criticism
Media, information & communication industries.
Educational: Languages other than English.
ART -- Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
Film adaptations
Motion pictures and literature
Italy
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author De Pau, Daniela.
Torello, Georgina.
ISBN 1443803022
9781443803021
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9781282043237
9786612043239
6612043237