Filmmaking by the Book
Subtitle: Italian Cinema and Literary Adaptation
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: December 1, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780801844553
Subjects: Film theory & criticism; Motion pictures; Film adaptations; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Cinema/Film: Book; Italy; Motion pictures and literature; Film & Video - Guides & Reviews; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Performing Arts / Film / Guides & Reviews; Performing Arts / Theater / General; Performing Arts-Film & Video - History & Criticism; Italian literature
First sentence: In no case is the irrelevance of fidelity criticism more evident than in Luchino Visconti's La terra trema (1948), where the impulse to adapt Giovanni Verga's novel I Malavoglia came to a relatively advanced stage in the film's elaboration.