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Weaving hope: Tonino Guerra, fables and utopian holism in Red Desert

Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, 2023
This article examines the interrelationship of the kite fable and island fable, both written by Tonino Guerra, in the film Red Desert. It highlights how both fables showcase Guerrian issues and motifs, such as holism and collectivity. In the first part of the article, I trace the genesis and transformation of Guerra’s tale L’aquilone (‘The kite’) in ...
Marianna Nespoli
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From vernacular art to the auteur moment: Tonino Guerra as a poet, writer and scriptwriter in the 1940s and 1950s

Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, 2023
This article will investigate aspects of a little studied but key figure in Italian cinema, Tonino Guerra, focusing on his debut as a film screenwriter. The article employs a comparative approach, relating the first poetic and narrative works of Guerra of the 1940s to his first steps as a film scriptwriter of the 1950s, with his fruitful collaborations
Livio Lepratto
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Perspectives on Tonino Guerra: Interviews with Rebecca West, Federico Pacchioni, Giame Alonge and Goffredo Fofi

Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, 2023
The following interviews address Tonino Guerra’s poetry, fiction, installations and screenwriting, with special attention to his environmentalism, his work with Elio Petri, his novel L’uomo parallelo (1969) in relation to his and Michelangelo Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point (1970), his love for popular culture and his ‘anarchism’.
Frank Burke
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‘Forbidden Dance’: A film treatment by Tonino Guerra

Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, 2023
Amidst a suffocating drought, a young, cloistered nun, Angela, experiences desires that draw her out of her convent to adventures, including a tarantella and collective sexual experience of dubious consent, that unsettle her and seem to reorient her relationship to Christ, direct her attention to the Madonna and ask the latter to end the drought in a ...
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Slow narration in Voyage in Time by Andrei Tarkovsky and Tonino Guerra (1983)

Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, 2023
The main purpose of this article is to rethink the documentary filmmaking of Andrei Tarkovsky and Tonino Guerra in the context of the new spiritual challenges of the modern era and to assess the potential of the audio-visual language of the travelogue Tempo di viaggio (Voyage in Time) () within the slow cinema discourse.
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Tonino Guerra: the screenwriter as a narrative technician or as a poet of images? Authorship and method in the writerdirector relationship

Journal of Screenwriting, 2010
The article focuses on the invisible role of the screenwriter and makes observations about the screenwriter's part in the process of writing a screenplay together with a director. By studying the two examples of the collaboration between the screenwriter and poet Tonino Guerra with the directors Michelangelo Antonioni and Andrei Tarkovsky, the ...
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