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L'écriture cinématographique de Luchino Visconti

Defense date:

Jan. 1, 1991

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Institution:

Toulouse 2

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Abstract EN:

Why visconti's film work has been told literary? a preliminary comparison between cinema and literature reveals on the one hand the literary or even anti-cinematographic features of the viscontian cinema. On the other hand, the directo's films, balancing between visconti the narrator and visconti the aesthete, obey to a specificaly literary dialectic in witch verghian narrative and proustian discourse meet each other.

Abstract FR:

Pourquoi l'oeuvre cinematographique de visconti est-elle consideree comme litteraire ? une comparaison preliminaire entre cinema et litterature revele d'une part les traits litteraires voire anticinematographiques du cinema viscontien. Les films du cineaste, qui balancent entre le visconti narrateur et le visconti esthete, obeissent d'autre part a une dialectique specifiquement litteraire ou se rencontrent le recit verghien et le discours proustien.