Michael Syrimis

The Great Black Spider on Its Knock-Kneed Tripod (eBook, PDF)

Reflections of Cinema in Early Twentieth-Century Italy

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

SyrimisMichael :

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442698352
• Artikelnr.: 48945675

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction: Reflections of Cinema and Technology in Marinetti,
D’Annunzio, and Pirandello
1. Film Aesthetics of a Heroic Futurism
2. An Aesthetics of War: The (Un)Problematic Screening of Vita futurista
3. Velocita: Between Avant-Garde and Narrativity
4. Forse che si forse che no: Technological Inflections of a Decadent
Text
5. Through a ‘Futuristic’ Lens: D’Annunzio’s Cinematic Re-Visions
6. The Humoristic Image in Pirandello’s Si gira
7. Cinema as Humour: The Ottre and the Superfluo
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index