Great Black Spider on Its Knock-Kneed Tripod
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- ISBN 9781442644014
- Weight: 700g
- Dimensions: 160 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 24 Jul 2012
- Publisher: University of Toronto Press
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Michael Syrimis is an assistant professor in the Department of French and Italian at Tulane University.
