Imaginary films in literature / edited by Stefano Ercolino, Massimo Fusillo, Mirko Lino, Luca Zenobi.
Since cinema is a composite language, describing a movie is a complex challenge for critics and writers, and greatly differs from the ancient and successful genre of the ekphrasis , the literary description of a visual work of art. Imaginary Films in Literature deals with a specific and significant...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2015. |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (247 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Stefano Ercolino , Massimo Fusillo , Mirko Lino and Luca Zenobi
- Introduction / Massimo Fusillo
- Notes toward a Theory of Cinematic “Ekphrasis” / James A.W. Heffernan
- The Killing Vision: David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest / Stefano Ercolino
- “Writing the Making of”: A New Literary Genre? / Jan Baetens
- “A Film Run in Installments”: Memory and Cinema in Tom McCarthy’s Remainder / Vincenzo Maggitti
- Towards Other Worlds, Towards Other Meanings: Screenplays on the Edge of the Plot / Clotilde Bertoni
- Paul Auster, Hector Mann and The Book of Illusions / Anna Scannavini
- Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí: Cinema, Theatre, Television and the Creative Force of the Word / Federica Ivaldi
- “Quo vadis – Kino?” Kurt Pinthus and the Theoretical Debate on the Birth of Cinema in Germany / Luca Zenobi
- The Outer Life of Martin Frost, or Never Make an Imaginary Film / Silvia Albertazzi
- On Conceiving (and Sometimes Not Succeeding in Making) a Film / Giulio Iacoli
- The “Quasi-Truth”: Literature and Cinema in Starnone and Piccolo / Gianluigi Simonetti
- Breakfast at the Prater: Christopher Isherwood, His Women and Men / Gian Piero Piretto
- Alpdrücken and the Spectrum of Power in Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon / Mirko Lino
- Pattern Recognition: The “Postcinema” Seen by William Gibson / Simone Arcagni
- Bibliography / Stefano Ercolino , Massimo Fusillo , Mirko Lino and Luca Zenobi
- Index / Stefano Ercolino , Massimo Fusillo , Mirko Lino and Luca Zenobi.