The great black spider on its knock-kneed tripod : reflections of cinema in early twentieth-century Italy / Michael Syrimis
- Author
- Syrimis, Michael, 1962-
- Published
- Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, [2012]
Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2012. - Copyright Date
- ©2012
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiv, 357 pages) : illustrations, digital file
Access Online
- Series
- Language Note
- Includes some text in Italian.
- Contents
- Film aesthetics of a heroic Futurism -- An aesthetics of war : the (un)problematic screening of Vita futurista -- Velocità : between avant-garde and narrativity -- Forse che sí forse che no : technological inflections of a decadent text -- Through a 'futuristic' lens: D'Annunzio's cinematic re-visions -- The humoristic image in Pirandello's Si gira ... -- Cinema as humour : the Oltre and the Superfluo.
- Summary
- The Great Black Spider on Its Knock-Kneed Tripod traces the encounter of Italy's writers with cinema, and in doing so offers vibrant new perspectives on the country's early twentieth-century culture.
- Subject(s)
- Marinetti, F. T., 1876-1944—Criticism and interpretation
- D'Annunzio, Gabriele, 1863-1938—Criticism and interpretation
- Pirandello, Luigi, 1867-1936—Criticism and interpretation
- D'Annunzio, Gabriele, 1863-1938
- Marinetti, F. T., 1876-1944
- Pirandello, Luigi, 1867-1936
- 1900-1999
- Motion pictures—Italy—History—20th century
- Motion pictures and literature—Italy—History—20th century
- Cinéma—Italie—Histoire—20e siècle
- Cinéma et littérature—Italie—Histoire—20e siècle
- LITERARY CRITICISM—European—Italian
- PERFORMING ARTS—Reference
- Motion pictures
- Motion pictures and literature
- Italy
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9781442698352 (electronic bk.)
1442698357 (electronic bk.)
9781442644014
144264401X - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-341) and index.
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