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‘Forbidden Dance’: A film treatment by Tonino Guerra
Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, 2023Amidst 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 ...
Amy Hough-Dugdale
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Weaving hope: Tonino Guerra, fables and utopian holism in Red Desert
Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, 2023This 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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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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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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