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Description for Shoot!
Hardback. Documents the infancy of film in Europe - complete with proto-divas, laughable production schedules, and cost-cutting measures with priceless effects - and offers a glimpse of the modern world through the camera's lens. This book captures early twentieth-century Italian filmmaking and reveals its truths as only a parody can. Translator(s): Moncrieff, Scott. Series: Cinema and Modernity. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: APF; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 428.
Originally published in Italian in 1915, "Shoot!" is one of the first novels to take as its subject the heady world of early motion pictures. Based on the absurdist journals of fictional Italian camera operator Serafino Gubbio, "Shoot!" documents the infancy of film in Europe - complete with proto-divas, laughable production schedules, and cost-cutting measures with priceless effects - and offers a glimpse of the modern world through the camera's lens. "Shoot!", presented here in its 1927 English translation, is a classic example of Nobel Prize - winning Sicilian playwright Luigi Pirandello's (1867-1936) literary talent and genius for blurring the ... Read more
Originally published in Italian in 1915, "Shoot!" is one of the first novels to take as its subject the heady world of early motion pictures. Based on the absurdist journals of fictional Italian camera operator Serafino Gubbio, "Shoot!" documents the infancy of film in Europe - complete with proto-divas, laughable production schedules, and cost-cutting measures with priceless effects - and offers a glimpse of the modern world through the camera's lens. "Shoot!", presented here in its 1927 English translation, is a classic example of Nobel Prize - winning Sicilian playwright Luigi Pirandello's (1867-1936) literary talent and genius for blurring the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Cinema and Modernity
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226669816
SKU
V9780226669816
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Ref
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About Luigi Pirandello
Sicilian writer Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) is the author of several novels, short stories, and plays, including Six Characters in Search of an Author. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934. C. K. Scott Moncrieff (1889-1930) translated many of Marcel Proust's writings, among other important works. P. Adams Sitney is professor of the Council of the Humanities and ... Read more
Reviews for Shoot!
"One cannot deny that Pirandello's plays and novels reveal a surprising individuality - ironic, inventive, and sometimes fantastical.... He serves up old wine in new bottles, carrying the thoughts and emotions of men into striking and unusual situations, replenishing their force by shifting their orbit from the commonplace to the extraordinary." - New York Times (1927)"