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Luchino Visconti and the Alchemy of Adaptation

Luchino Visconti and the Alchemy of Adaptation

Hennessey, Brendan

Paperback

Series: Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema

Literary CriticismFilm Studies

ISBN10: 1438484984
ISBN13: 9781438484983
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jan 2 2022
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Examines the place of book-to-film adaptations by one of Italy's most famous postwar film directors.

Since the beginning, much of Italian cinema has been sustained by transforming literature into moving images. This tradition of literary adaptation continues today, challenging artistic form and practice by pressuring the boundaries that traditionally separate film from its sister arts. In the twentieth century, director Luchino Visconti is a keystone figure in Italy's evolving art of adaptation. From the tumultuous years of Fascism and postwar Neorealism, through the blockbuster decade of the 1960s, into the arthouse masterpieces of the 1970s, Visconti's adaptations marked a distinct pathway of the Italian cinematic imagination. Luchino Visconti and the Alchemy of Adaptation examines these films together with their literary antecedents. Moving past strict book-to-film comparisons, it ponders how literary texts encounter and interact with a history of cultural and cinematic forms, genres, and traditions. Matching the major critical concerns of the postwar period (realism, political filmmaking, cinematic modernism) with more recent notions of adaptation and intermediality, this book reviews how one of Italy's greatest directors mined literary ore for cinematic inspiration.

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