Great Black Spider on Its Knock-Kneed Tripod: Reflections on Cinema in Early Twentieth-Century Italy - Rilegato

Syrimis, Michael

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ISBN 10: 144264401X ISBN 13: 9781442644014

Casa editrice: Univ of Toronto Pr, 2012

Riassunto

The emergence of cinema as a predominant form of mass entertainment in the 1910s inspired intellectuals to rethink their definitions of art. 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.

This comparative study focuses on the immediate responses to this cultural phenomenon of three highly influential intellectuals, each with a competing aesthetic vision – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, founder of Futurism; Gabriele D’Annunzio, leader of Italian Decadentism; and Luigi Pirandello, a father of modern European theatre and theorist of humour. Along with demonstrating how the popularization of the feature-length narrative influenced each author’s outlook and theories, Michael Syrimis unravels the extent to which cinema enforced or neutralized the ideological and aesthetic differences between them.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Michael Syrimis is an assistant professor in the Department of French and Italian at Tulane University.

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Book by Syrimis Michael

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Toronto Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 144264401X
• ISBN 13: 9781442644014
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 357