From book to screen : images of the fascist dictatorship in Elsa Morante’s La Storia
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- Mara Josi (UGent)
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- Abstract
- This article looks at La Storia (1974) by Elsa Morante, considering Morante’s indictment of Fascism and representation of the past. Drawing from cultural memory studies and theories of emotions, it explores the influence of Morante’s book on individual and collective memory.It discusses and examines the screen adaptation of La Storia (1986) by Luigi Comencini and, finally, considers how the works by Morante and Comencini have represented Fascist Italy and the Second World War. La Storia is here considered as a bearer of historical knowledge and a channel of memory, both in the literary, cinematographic and televisual form. It is not only an outcome of remembrance, but also an active ingredient in the process of forging cultural memory.
- Keywords
- Elsa Morante, Luigi Comencini, La Storia, Cultural Memory Studies, Theory of Adaptation
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01HF4AKTWYG70TVDQJZG3BHP8Y
- MLA
- Josi, Mara. “From Book to Screen : Images of the Fascist Dictatorship in Elsa Morante’s La Storia.” ANNALI D’ITALIANISTICA, edited by Guido Bartolini et al., vol. 41, 2023, pp. 81–100.
- APA
- Josi, M. (2023). From book to screen : images of the fascist dictatorship in Elsa Morante’s La Storia. ANNALI D’ITALIANISTICA, 41, 81–100.
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- Josi, Mara. 2023. “From Book to Screen : Images of the Fascist Dictatorship in Elsa Morante’s La Storia.” Edited by Guido Bartolini, Charles Burdett, Charles Leavitt, Giacomo Lichtner, and Giuliana Pieri. ANNALI D’ITALIANISTICA 41: 81–100.
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- Josi, Mara. 2023. “From Book to Screen : Images of the Fascist Dictatorship in Elsa Morante’s La Storia.” Ed by. Guido Bartolini, Charles Burdett, Charles Leavitt, Giacomo Lichtner, and Giuliana Pieri. ANNALI D’ITALIANISTICA 41: 81–100.
- Vancouver
- 1.Josi M. From book to screen : images of the fascist dictatorship in Elsa Morante’s La Storia. Bartolini G, Burdett C, Leavitt C, Lichtner G, Pieri G, editors. ANNALI D’ITALIANISTICA. 2023;41:81–100.
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- [1]M. Josi, “From book to screen : images of the fascist dictatorship in Elsa Morante’s La Storia,” ANNALI D’ITALIANISTICA, vol. 41, pp. 81–100, 2023.
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