| Shoot!: The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio, Cinematograph Operator Contributor(s): Pirandello, Luigi (Author), Moncrieff, C. K. Scott (Translator), Sitney, P. Adams (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0226669815 ISBN-13: 9780226669816 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $62.37 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2005 Annotation: Originally published in Italian in 1915, "Shoot! "is one of the first novels to take as its subject the heady world of early motion pictures. Based on the absurdist journals of fictional Italian camera operator Serafino Gubbio, "Shoot!" documents the infancy of film in Europe--complete with proto-divas, laughable production schedules, and cost-cutting measures with priceless effects---and offers a glimpse of the modern world through the camera's lens. "Shoot!, "presented here in its 1927 English translation, is a classic example of Nobel Prize-winning Sicilian playwright Luigi Pirandello's (1867-1936) literary talent and genius for blurring the line between art and reality. From the film studio Kosmograph, Pirandello's Gubbio steadily winds the crank of his camera by day and scribbles with his pen by night, revealing the world both mundane and melodramatic that unfolds in front of his camera. Through Gubbio's narrative--saturated with fantasy and folly--Pirandello grapples with the philosophical implications of modernity. Like much of Pirandello's work, "Shoot!" parodies human weaknesses, drawing attention to the themes of isolation and madness as emerging tendencies in the modern world. Enhanced by new critical commentaries, "Shoot!" is an entertaining caricature, capturing early twentieth-century Italian filmmaking and revealing its truths as only a parody can. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - Direction & Production |
| Dewey: 853.912 |
| LCCN: 2005009429 |
| Series: Cinema and Modernity (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.93" H x 6.72" W x 8.3" (0.96 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Originally published in Italian in 1915, Shoot is one of the first novels to take as its subject the heady world of early motion pictures. Based on the absurdist journals of fictional Italian camera operator Serafino Gubbio, Shoot documents the infancy of film in Europe--complete with proto-divas, laughable production schedules, and cost-cutting measures with priceless effects---and offers a glimpse of the modern world through the camera's lens. Shoot , presented here in its 1927 English translation, is a classic example of Nobel Prize-winning Sicilian playwright Luigi Pirandello's (1867-1936) literary talent and genius for blurring the line between art and reality. From the film studio Kosmograph, Pirandello's Gubbio steadily winds the crank of his camera by day and scribbles with his pen by night, revealing the world both mundane and melodramatic that unfolds in front of his camera. Through Gubbio's narrative--saturated with fantasy and folly--Pirandello grapples with the philosophical implications of modernity. Like much of Pirandello's work, Shoot parodies human weaknesses, drawing attention to the themes of isolation and madness as emerging tendencies in the modern world. Enhanced by new critical commentaries, Shoot is an entertaining caricature, capturing early twentieth-century Italian filmmaking and revealing its truths as only a parody can. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gunning, Tom: - Tom Gunning is professor in the Department of Art History and the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago.Pirandello, Luigi: - Sicilian writer Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) was the author of several novels, short stories, and plays, including Six Characters in Search of an Author. He was awarded the Nobel Prize inLiterature in 1934. |