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Pirandello and Film (Hardcover)
Nina da Vinci Nichols, Jana O'Keefe Bazzoni; Preface by Maurice Charney
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R1,743
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Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) is one of the
preeminent figures of the modern European theater. His masterpiece,
"Six Characters in Search of an Author," set loose a riot during
its first performance in Rome in 1921. This play about six
unfortunate characters abandoned by their author in the middle of a
tawdry drama, is an unsettling, supremely self-conscious work that
is ultimately about theatrical artifice and artistic creation
itself. "Pirandello and Film" examines Pirandello's many
efforts--none of them finally successful--to transform Six
Characters into a movie. The authors examine Pirandello's views on
film and its relation to theater, his varying approaches to
creating a film adaptation of "Six Characters," and the efforts of
directors and film moguls in Germany and Hollywood to fashion a
cinematic version of the play. The book also presents an array of
important documents, including some that have never before appeared
in English: a Prologue (or prose sketch) for a 1926 film; a
Scenario (a more detailed prose sketch) prepared by Pirandello and
Adolph Lantz in the late 1920s for a German film version of "Six
Characters"; an English-language film sketch written in 1935 by
Pirandello and Saul Colin; and a letter from Max Reinhardt and the
German emigre Hollywood film director Joseph von Sternberg to Saul
Colin regarding the proposed film treatment of the play. These
documents, together with the authors' critical text, provide a
detailed portrait of Pirandello's developing view of film as an
appropriate medium for his revolutionary dramatic innovations.
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