Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 The belated development of a theory of the novel in Italian literary culture
- 2 The forms of long prose fiction in late medieval and early modern Italian literature
- 3 Alessandro Manzoni and developments in the historical novel
- 4 Literary realism in Italy
- 5 Popular fiction between Italian Unification and World War I
- 6 The foundations of Italian modernism
- 7 Neorealist narrative
- 8 Memory and testimony in Primo Levi and Giorgio Bassani
- 9 The Italian novel in search of identity
- 10 Feminist writing in the twentieth century
- 11 Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco
- 12 Literary cineastes
- 13 Frontier, exile, and migration in the contemporary Italian novel
- 14 The new Italian novel
- Index
- Series List
12 - Literary cineastes
the Italian novel and the cinema
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2006
- Frontmatter
- 1 The belated development of a theory of the novel in Italian literary culture
- 2 The forms of long prose fiction in late medieval and early modern Italian literature
- 3 Alessandro Manzoni and developments in the historical novel
- 4 Literary realism in Italy
- 5 Popular fiction between Italian Unification and World War I
- 6 The foundations of Italian modernism
- 7 Neorealist narrative
- 8 Memory and testimony in Primo Levi and Giorgio Bassani
- 9 The Italian novel in search of identity
- 10 Feminist writing in the twentieth century
- 11 Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco
- 12 Literary cineastes
- 13 Frontier, exile, and migration in the contemporary Italian novel
- 14 The new Italian novel
- Index
- Series List
Summary
Discussing the interrelationships between film and literature, Italo Calvino once wrote: “There remains the fact that the cinema is continually being drawn toward literature. In spite of having such power of its own, the cinema has always been afflicted by jealousy of the written text: it wants to 'write'.” There are strands to the respective histories of the twentieth-century Italian novel and the Italian cinema that at times come together to form a kind of Gordian knot, so to speak, so tightly harnessed are they. At such times as these historical strands cross over, literature and cinema can be said to enter into a form of dialogue with one another. This dialogue between the Italian cinema and literature is amongst the most complex, fluid, and multifaceted to be found in any culture. To appreciate its full scope one has to acknowledge it at a number of interrelated levels. First, there is the most immediate and most commonly discussed question of adapting Italian novels to film form.
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- The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel , pp. 182 - 196Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003
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