Tempo della morte e Spazio dell'azione Francis Ford Coppola in Tulsa
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Title
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Tempo della morte e Spazio dell'azione Francis Ford Coppola in Tulsa
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:ae55cbc24ae9:11381
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identifier
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11785
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Creator
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Rizzo, Flavio,
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Contributor
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Ammiel Alcalay
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Date
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2012
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Language
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Italian
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Comparative literature | Film studies
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Abstract
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The goal of this dissertation is to put into context and underline, through the films Rumble Fish and The Outsiders , the double vision of cinema of the North American director Francis Ford Coppola, and his capacity to envision and match the two fundamental aspects of cinema, often in conflict: commerce and art.;The dissertation is structured on four chapters. The first one concerns a brief historic and cultural contextualization of the director and his artistic path; clearly since the material is so large, the intent here is not to exhaust the topic or produce a full biography of Francis Ford Coppola, to the contrary, the intent is to produce a gaze, a seed that will be a crucial tool in contextualizing the analysis of the two films that are at the center of this work. In revisiting the career of the director, particular attention is given to his own words; because of the impossibility of an in depth analysis of all his movies, a preference has been given to the completeness of Coppola's own words as a better vehicle to create a frame of reference. The frame of reference will also include the crucial passage from the "Old Hollywood" to the "New Hollywood" in terms of production mode and cultural shifts. The chapter closes with a brief history of the birth of the project, the basis around which it developed, and the financial circumstances that created it. The object of the following chapters is the history and the analysis of the films, first The Outsiders and in the following chapter Rumble Fish. In both cases we start from an accurate analysis of the filmic text (the breakdown of the text will enable us to arrive at a better understanding of Coppola's choices both in terms of language and in terms of narrative). The work carries on with a comparative analysis with the literary texts from which the movies have been originated, two short stories from the North American writer Susan. E. Hinton. Next is a detailed critical work around the original starting point: the double vision of cinema of the director, commercial (The Outsiders ) and artistic (Rumble Fish); attention is given to Coppola's ability to conceive the two films in complete opposite ways from a cinematic point of view, but absolutely identical from the point of view of the preparation. We will also see how the first movie, The Outsiders , has been quite literally a `gym' for the visual solution and camera movements that in the second film, Rumble fish, will turn into an actual signature of the author. Both chapters close trying to unlock the movies and directors that inspired Coppola: the authors' inheritance.;The dissertation closes with a comparative analysis of the two films that put into a larger context the points emerged in the previous chapters, while new elements will emerge some of the main points will be reinforced. Particular attention will be given to a cross analysis of the filmic texts from which we shall see the numeric terms (typology of shots, camera movements, choice in cuts) which gave birth to the critical considerations emerged in the previous chapters.;This dissertation does not want to be a work on the extraordinary complexity of Francis Ford Coppola's filmography, it is rather a voyage within two minor films of his, a journey that will try to bring into light some fundamental aspects of Coppola's understanding of cinema. My work is a comparative study that, trough an objective analysis of filmic texts, will underline the complexity of Coppola's project, beyond the contextualization of the director's career.;The attempt is to have a crescendo from a simple contextualization, to the work around each film, on into the comparative analysis of their cinematic language within which the critical work will be grounded.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Comparative Literature
