Encounters with the real in contemporary Italian literature and cinema. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Loredana Di Martino and Pasquale Verdicchio.
• Editors: Di Martino, Loredana; Verdicchio, Pasquale, 1954-
• Contents: Table of Contents; Introduction; Part I: Literary Encounters with the Real; The Uses of Affective Realism in Asbestos Narratives; Toxic Tales; New Realism or Return to Ethics? Paths of Italian Narrative from the 1990s to Today; Resisting Inexperience in the Age of Media Hyperreality; Collective Transmedia Storytelling from Below; "The Task of Truly Probing Reality"; Part II: Cinematic Encounters with the Real; Revelatory Crises of the Real; Emanuele Crialese's Allegorical Realism in Respiro The Quest for Identity and the Real in Crialese's Terraferma, Dionisio's Un consiglio a Dio, and Martinelli's Rumore di acqueA Journey from Death to Life; Italian Documentary Forms and Cinematographic Archives; "History Has Come Back With a Vengeance"; Contributors; Index
• Publisher Details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 850.9; Italian literature -- History and criticism; Motion pictures -- Italy -- History; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian; Italy -- Civilization; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781443862288; 1443862282
• Related ISBNs: 9781443811231; 1443811238
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 20, 2017).
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