In Twelve Monkeys, a 1995 post-apocalyptic feature, Terry Gilliam credits as his main source of inspiration Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1961), an experimental short movie whose story is told through a series of still images, ...

Around 1930 we find autobiographic writings produced by actors who lived the season of the theatre of variety. Memories which are precious documents to rebuild an important kind of show in an empirical vision, from the ...

The study examines an essay written by Otto Brahm and published in October 1909 in the «Berliner Tageblatt». A careful reading of the entire document entitled Freie Bühne, complete with the last three pages handwritten by ...

The long career of Ruggero Ruggeri started in the late Naturalism and finished at the beginning of the 1950s without knowing crisis or setbacks. During this period the old Italian theatre was replaced by a new role acquired ...

The essay reconstructs the history of the film script that the writer Ennio Flaiano Drew from his novel Tempo di uccidere (The Short Cut), winner of the Strega award in 1947, for the American director Jules Dassin, in the ...

This essay critically examines the autobiography of Eduardo Scarpetta, problematizing the idea of the author’s memoir as an authentic confession. Analysing several declarations written by Scarpetta, the study shows how ...

This paper offers a comparative reading of the film È stato il figlio by Daniele Ciprì through several accurate references to Un borghese piccolo piccolo by Monicelli. The analysis subsequently reveals how the Palermitan ...

This essay intends to search out the deep bond but not sufficiently depth by the literary criticism between Giacomo Leopardi and the Book of Job. Particularly, analysing the most important dialogue of the Operette morali, ...

This essay analyses Cristo al CEP of Cosimo Cinieri, a representation of the Passion of Christ along the streets of the popular neighborhood of San Paolo di Bari characterized by public housing (CEP), on Palm Sunday of 3 ...