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Performing Arts Direction & Production

Masters of Two Arts

Re-creation of European Literatures in Italian Cinema

by (author) Carlo Testa

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Sep 2002
Category
Direction & Production, History & Criticism, Italian
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802036407
    Publish Date
    Sep 2002
    List Price
    $107.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780802084750
    Publish Date
    Sep 2002
    List Price
    $54.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442677111
    Publish Date
    Sep 2002
    List Price
    $105.00

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Description

The movie screen has been the forum for many star pairings: Bogart and Bacall, Tracy and Hepburn, and Fellini and Kafka. While this latter combination might seem slightly unexpected or improbable at first sight, Carlo Testa's Masters of Two Arts demonstrates that pairings of famed directors and writers are commonplace in modern Italian cinema. Surprisingly, the study of the interrelation between Italian cinema and European literature has been almost completely neglected in film scholarship. Testa addresses and attempts to correct this oversight with nine in-depth analyses of the one-on-one rapport between an Italian filmmaker and a "classic" name in modern European literature. Looking at combinations such as Pasolini and Sade, Rossellini and Stendhal, and Visconti and Mann amongst others, Testa uses theoretical as well as historical methods, showing how the respective text undergoes not 'adaptation' but full 're-creation' (as defined by Èizenshtein) in a different art form and, even more importantly, in a new cultural context.

About the author

Carlo Testa is Associate Professor in the Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

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