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Folktales and Other References in Toriyama's Dragon Ball
2014
The aim of this article is to show the relationship between Japanese folktales and Japanese anime as a genre, especially how the intertextuality with traditional tales and myth subvert its conventional use. To meet this goal, the author examines Toriyama’s successful Dragon Ball series, which has enjoyed continued popularity right from its first publication in the 1980s. The article analyses the parallelism between Dragon Ball and a classic Chinese novel, Journey to the West, its main source. However, there are many other references present in Dragon Ball that are connected to religion and folktales. The author illustrates this relationship with examples taken from the anime that correspond…
Theatrum Mundi and site in four television Shakespeare films
2019
This article explores metatheatricality and site specificity in four Shakespeare television films produced by Illuminations Media: Gregory Doran’s Macbeth (2001), Hamlet (2009) and Julius Caesar (2012), and Rupert Goold’s Macbeth (2010). Drawing on metatheatrical theory applied to the screen and recent criticism on site-specific theatre, I explore the films as self-referential and self-conscious works embedded in environments that oppose the artifice of drama to the ‘reality’ of normative television film. Shakespeare’s aesthetic metaphor, presented in self-contained theatrical worlds, does not depict autonomous fictions but is disrupted by outside ‘reality’.
Montage and Spectator: Eisenstein and the Avant-Garde
1990
We could say that the avant-garde at the beginning of the century received the advent of cinema enthusiastically; that is not strange. Though the differences between groups, movements, works, or acts that are included under this arrogant name are sometimes too vast, there was a similar project — or group of projects — whose aim was to proclaim the crisis of a homogeneous world, born in the humanism of the Renaissance and validated in the Age of Enlightenment . Cinema thus became a suitable space for attacking and criticizing the artistic and cultural tradition. We can enumerate briefly some reasons for this attitude. First, cinema was one of the less 'artistic' forms of art, so to speak. Ci…
Scenes of Liturgy and Perversion In Bunuel
2004
La religión estuvo siempre presente en la obra de Luis Buñuel, tanto bajo la forma de la burla como de la fe o la torsión, desde L'âge d'or hasta La voie lactée. El presente texto interroga la función de la liturgia, en cuanto 'comunidad en oración realizando actos rituales' en la obra de Buñuel, es decir, de qué modo el realizador introduce claves de la liturgia católica en sus obras cuya comprensión y deslices resultan fundamentales para la interpretación. The Christian religion is far from being an accidental component in Buñuel's work. All his films show complex transactions with its referents, oscillating between the popular ingenuity (la Ilusión viaja en tranvía), the boundless and hy…
Lolita, John Wayne e i Sanfedisti: feticci e demoni della Cancel Culture
2022
Debate about Cancel Culture, especially dealing with the relationship between literature, cinema ans political correctness’ obsessions
La seconda chance. Rohmer e l'arte di raccontare
2020
Il cinema di Rohmer è un cinema letterario? Prima di diventare regista Maurice Schérer (che non ha ancora adottato lo pseudonimo sotto il quale è conosciuto da tutti i cinefili) è stato uno scrittore. E nel primo dei tre grandi cicli in cui si colloca la maggior parte della sua opera - i Racconti morali - ha ripreso e adattato le sue novelle di tanti anni prima. La letterarietà dei Racconti morali è soprattutto legata a un uso molto sostenuto della voce fuori campo. L'abbandono di questa modalità narrativa sarà l'aspetto più evidente di un progressivo distacco dalla letteratura: la sua vocazione di narratore troverà nel cinema una dimensione completamente diversa. Is Rohmer's cinema a liter…
Reduced mRNA abundance of the main enzymes involved in methionine metabolism in human liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma
2000
Abstract Background/Aims: It has been known for at least 50 years that alterations in methionine metabolism occur in human liver cirrhosis. However, the molecular basis of this alteration is not completely understood. In order to gain more insight into the mechanisms behind this condition, mRNA levels of methionine adenosyltransferase ( MAT1A ), glycine methyltransferase ( GNMT ), methionine synthase ( MS ), betaine homocysteine methyltransferase ( BHMT ) and cystathionine β-synthase ( CBS ) were examined in 26 cirrhotic livers, five hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) tissues and ten control livers. Methods: The expression of the above-mentioned genes was determined by quantitative RT-PCR analy…
Recensione: Marcello Ravveduto, Lo spettacolo della mafia. Storia di un immaginario tra realtà e finzione, Torino, Edizioni Gruppo Abele, 2019
2020
Review
"Le Train pour Hollywood de Radoslaw Piwowarski" (1987) ou comment devenir une star à l'image de Marilyn Monroe
2019
Our analysis focuses on the symbolism of Marilyn Monroe in the context of the Polish cinema of the end of communism and the desires and fantasies it arouses. Drawing on the Polish representation of Hollywood's star in the Polish film Train to Hollywood, directed by Radoslaw Piwowarski in 1987, we propose here a reflection on the femininity, but also the theatrical and subversive dimension of Eros.
The Image of Spain as Tourist Destination Built Through Fictional Cinema
2008
Fictional cinema is one of the cultural agents that shapes the international image of each country. It colonizes spectators’ imagery, and it can influence their choice of tourist destinations. Spanish cinema’s international diffusion has allowed the exhibition of movies that spread and renew the image of Spain in different ways. In this respect, we propose a three-fold typology of films focusing our attention on their content and the ways in which they build the image of Spain: Icon Films, Pastiche Films, and Tourist Poster Films. These films may stimulate the increase of a cultural tourism very different from the traditional one that inspired many to come to Spain mainly looking for sunny …