An extraordinary journey that crosses the boundary between literature and cinematic images: from the initial shock of the early twentieth century, when cinema burst into reality, to today. Critic Emiliano Morreale (Il cinema era tutto. Scrittori italiani davanti il grande schermo, Einaudi) lets us experience cinema in the novels, short stories, poems, memoirs, and reflections of our greatest writers—from Pirandello and Soldati to Starnone—and reminds us of the role it has played in shaping narrative universes. In short, the story of an era and a world for which, as Sciascia said, "cinema was everything." Giorgio and Matteo Scianna.
An extraordinary journey that crosses the boundary between literature and cinematic images: from the initial shock of the early twentieth century, when cinema burst into reality, to today. Critic Emiliano Morreale (Il cinema era tutto. Scrittori italiani davanti il grande schermo, Einaudi) lets us experience cinema in the novels, short stories, poems, memoirs, and reflections of our greatest writers—from Pirandello and Soldati to Starnone—and reminds us of the role it has played in shaping narrative universes. In short, the story of an era and a world for which, as Sciascia said, "cinema was everything." Giorgio and Matteo Scianna.