The “Rebound Effect”: Formal and Structural Influences of Cinema on Italian Literature
Keywords:
literature and film, Italian literature, narratology, semiotics, narrative technique, intermedialityAbstract
The “rebound effect” is the deep influence of cinema on literature – not at the thematic level, but at the formal and structural one. This essay offers an overview of this theoretical issue, using Italian literary works as examples (e.g., Pasolini, Tabucchi, and Camilleri).References
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