Luchino Visconti and the Elegant Art of Adaptation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Luchino Visconti and the Elegant Art of Adaptation write by Brendan W. Hennessey. This book was released on 2011. Luchino Visconti and the Elegant Art of Adaptation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Luchino Visconti and the Alchemy of Adaptation
Luchino Visconti and the Alchemy of Adaptation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Luchino Visconti and the Alchemy of Adaptation write by Brendan Hennessey. This book was released on 2021-09-01. Luchino Visconti and the Alchemy of Adaptation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Luchino Visconti write by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith. This book was released on 1973. Luchino Visconti available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Aristocrat and Marxist, master equally of harsh realism and sublime melodrama, Luchino Visconti (1906-76) was without question one of the greatest European film directors. His career as a film-maker began in the 1930s when he escaped the stifling culture of Fascist Italy to work with Jean Renoir in the France of the Popular Front. Back in his native country in the 1940s he was one of the founders of the neo-realist movement. In 1954, with Senso, he turned his hand to a historical spectacular. The result was both glorious to look at and a profound reinterpretation of history. In Rocco and His Brothers (1960) he returned to his neo-realist roots and in The Leopard (1963), with Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon, he made the first truly international film. He scored a further success with Death in Venice (1971), a sensitive adaptation of Thomas Mann's story about a writer (in the film, a musician) whose world is devastated when he falls in love with a young boy. A similar homo-erotic theme haunts Ludwig (1973), a bio-pic about the King of Bavaria who prefers art to politics and the company of stableboys to that of the princess he is supposed to marry. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith's celebrated study of the director was first published in 1967 and revised in 1973. It is now fully updated to include the last three films that Visconti made before his death, together with some reflections on the 'auteur' theory of which the original edition was a key example. Book jacket.
Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Luchino Visconti write by Claretta Tonetti. This book was released on 1983. Luchino Visconti available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Biography of Luchino Visconti, an Italian theatre, opera and cinema director, as well as a screenwriter.
Stanley Kubrick and the Art of Adaptation
Stanley Kubrick and the Art of Adaptation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stanley Kubrick and the Art of Adaptation write by Greg Jenkins. This book was released on 2015-08-13. Stanley Kubrick and the Art of Adaptation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Paring a novel into a two-hour film is an arduous task for even the best screenwriters and directors. Often the resulting movies are far removed from the novel, sometimes to the point of being unrecognizable. Stanley Kubrick's adaptations have consistently been among the best Hollywood has to offer. Kubrick's film adaptations of three novels--Lolita, The Shining and Full Metal Jacket--are analyzed in this work. The primary focus is on the alterations in the characters and narrative structure, with additional attention to style, scope, pace, mood and meaning. Kubrick's adaptations simplify, impose a new visuality, reduce violence, and render the moral slant more conventional. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
