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"Marcus' approach to her subject is extremely interesting. The result is a challenging book, packed full of new and original ideas... It is exciting, and it confirms Marcus' reputation as one of the most innovative Italianists working today." -- Italian Studies
"An important and original book that breaks new ground and provides compelling interpretations of Italy's most important directors and their experiences with adaptations of literary works." -- Peter Bondanella, MLN
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What is the impulse to transform literary narrative into cinematic discourse, and what are the factors that determine that transformation? In Filmmaking by the Book, Millicent Marcus considers the adaptive process as the sum total of a series of encounters: the institutional encounter between literary and film cultures, the semiotic encounter between two very different signifying systems, and the personal encounter between author and filmmaker -- sometimes involving an overt Oedipal struggle for selfhood.
Marcus explores that process by looking at key works by such major postwar Italian filmmakers as Visconti, De Sica, Pasolini, Fellini, and the Taviani brothers. Drawing on the methodologies of semiotics, psychoanalysis, feminism, and ideological criticism, she finds that cinematic imaginations typically employ literary texts self-consciously to resolve specific artistic problems. Each of the filmmakers studied here define their own authorial task in relation to that of the literary precursor, and insert "umbilical" scenes or "allegories of adaptation" to teach viewers how to read their cinematic rewriting of literary sources.
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In no case is the irrelevance of fidelity criticism more evident than in Luchino Visconti's La terra trema (1948), where the impulse to adapt Giovanni Verga's novel I Malavoglia came to a relatively advanced stage in the film's elaboration. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
voce della luna, culturale contemporaneo, dei desideri, poema dei lunatici, cinema italiano degli anni, fidelity analysis, terra trema, padre padrone, subsistence pastoral, sul cinema, camera returns, subjective camera, bocce balls, cinematic adaptation, cinematic discourse, ball scene, subsequent page references, film language Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Maria Grazia, Aci Trezza, Ser Ciappelletto, Bicycle Thief, Fellini's Casanova, Lord Talou, Old Testament, Vittorio Taviani, Aldo Tassone, Barchetto del Duca, Don Lollo, Gavino Ledda, Matthew's Christ, Miss Farina, Rita Hayworth, Battle of Palermo, Don Diego, Don Gianni, John the Baptist, Pasolini's Gospel According, Sophia Loren, World War New!
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In no case is the irrelevance of fidelity criticism more evident than in Luchino Visconti's La terra trema (1948), where the impulse to adapt Giovanni Verga's novel I Malavoglia came to a relatively advanced stage in the film's elaboration. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
voce della luna, culturale contemporaneo, dei desideri, poema dei lunatici, cinema italiano degli anni, fidelity analysis, terra trema, padre padrone, subsistence pastoral, sul cinema, camera returns, subjective camera, bocce balls, cinematic adaptation, cinematic discourse, ball scene, subsequent page references, film language Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Maria Grazia, Aci Trezza, Ser Ciappelletto, Bicycle Thief, Fellini's Casanova, Lord Talou, Old Testament, Vittorio Taviani, Aldo Tassone, Barchetto del Duca, Don Lollo, Gavino Ledda, Matthew's Christ, Miss Farina, Rita Hayworth, Battle of Palermo, Don Diego, Don Gianni, John the Baptist, Pasolini's Gospel According, Sophia Loren, World War New!
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- The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani on 10 pages
- Luchino Visconti by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith on 5 pages
- Federico Fellini: Essays in Criticism by Peter E. Bondanella on 5 pages
- Italian Cinema (Ungar Film Library) by Peter Bondanella on 5 pages
- Two Women by Alberto Moravia on 5 pages
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- Italian Film (National Film Traditions) by Marcia Landy in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Dante, Cinema, and Television (Toronto Italian Studies) by Amilcare A. Iannucci on page 10, page 49, and page 152
- Italian Film (National Film Traditions) by Marcia Landy in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Literature and Film: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Film Adaptation by Robert Stam on page 51, and page 312
- European Cinema by Elizabeth Ezra on page 138, and Back Matter
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