The Great Black Spider on Its Knock-kneed Tripod

The Great Black Spider on Its Knock-kneed Tripod
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 377
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ISBN-10 : 9781442644014
ISBN-13 : 144264401X
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Book Synopsis The Great Black Spider on Its Knock-kneed Tripod by : Michael Syrimis

Download or read book The Great Black Spider on Its Knock-kneed Tripod written by Michael Syrimis and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence of cinema as a predominant form of mass entertainment in the 1910s inspired intellectuals to rethink their definitions of art. The Great Black Spider on Its Knock-Kneed Tripod traces the encounter of Italy's writers with cinema, and in doing so offers vibrant new perspectives on the country's early twentieth-century culture. This comparative study focuses on the immediate responses to this cultural phenomenon of three highly influential intellectuals, each with a competing aesthetic vision – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, founder of Futurism; Gabriele D'Annunzio, leader of Italian Decadentism; and Luigi Pirandello, a father of modern European theatre and theorist of humour. Along with demonstrating how the popularization of the feature-length narrative influenced each author's outlook and theories, Michael Syrimis unravels the extent to which cinema enforced or neutralized the ideological and aesthetic differences between them.


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