Film aesthetics of a heroic Futurism -- An aesthetics of war : the (un)problematic screening of Vita futurista -- Velocità : between avant-garde and narrativity -- Forse che sí forse che no : technological inflections of a decadent text -- Through a 'futuristic' lens: D'Annunzio's cinematic re-visions -- The humoristic image in Pirandello's Si gira ... -- Cinema as humour : the Oltre and the Superfluo
Summary
The Great Black Spider on Its Knock-Kneed Tripod traces the encounter of Italy's writers with cinema, and in doing so offers vibrant new perspectives on the country's early twentieth-century culture
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-341) and index
