Masters of Two Arts: Re-creation of European Literatures in Italian Cinema (Toronto Italian Studies) - Softcover

Testa, Carlo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802084753 ISBN 13: 9780802084750

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2002

Synopsis

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 this title

About the Author

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

From the Back Cover

'In discussing numerous cases of cinematic adaptation of major works from various European literatures, Testa's book covers a subject left almost untouched by English scholarship in a book-length study that will certainly provide an important contribution to Italian, European, and cinema studies.'

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802084753
• ISBN 13: 9780802084750
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336