Filmmaking by the Book
Subtitle: Italian Cinema and Literary Adaptation
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: December 1, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780801844546
Subjects: Film theory & criticism; Motion pictures and literature; Film Theory; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Cinema/Film: Book; Italy; American - General; Film & Video - Guides & Reviews; Theater - General; Performing Arts / Theater / General; Film adaptations; Italian literature; Motion pictures
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.