Pinocchio, Puppets, and Modernity : the Mechanical Body.

This study assesses the significance of Pinocchio in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in addition to his status as the creature of a nineteenth century traversed by a cultural enthusiasm for dummies, puppets, and marionettes. This collection identifies him as a figure characterized by a ...

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Main Author: Pizzi, Katia
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Francis, Taylor & amp ; 2011
Series:Children's literature and culture.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Pinocchio, puppets and modernity : the mechanical body; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgements; Bibliographical Note; Note on Translations; Introduction; Chapter 1 : Carlo Collodi and the Rhythmical Body: Between Giuseppe Mazzini and George Sand; Chapter 2 : Puppets on a String: The Unnatural History of Human Reproduction; Chapter 3 : Workshops of Creation, Filthy and Not: Collodi's Pinocchio and Shelley's Frankenstein; Chapter 4 : The Manufacture of a Modern Puppet Type: The Anatomy of Alfred Jarry's Monsieur Ubu and its Signifi cance.
  • Chapter 5 Man is Non-Man: Mannequins, Puppets and Marionettes in the Theatre of Dario FoChapter 6 : Unpainting Collodi's Fireplace; Chapter 7 : Pinocchio and the Mechanical Body: Luciano Folgore's Papers at the Getty Research Institute Library; Chapter 8 : The Myth of Pinocchio: Metamorphosis of a Puppet from Collodi's Pages to the Screen; Chapter 9 : The Watchful Mirror: Pinocchio's Adventures Re-created by Roberto Benigni; Chapter 10 : Beyond the Mechanical Body: Digital Pinocchio; List of Contributors; Index.