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- Title
Cuore and the cinema: reframing the Risorgimento for the First World War.
- Authors
Boylan, Amy
- Abstract
During the years leading up to and during the First World War, patriotic films featuring self-sacrificing child protagonists formed an important sub-genre of Italian film production. This article looks at Film Artistica Gloria's Cuore series (1915–1916), adapted from De Amicis' novel, with particular attention given to the two war-themed films, Il tamburino sardo (UK: The Sardinian Drummer Boy , 1915) and La piccola vedetta lombarda (The Little Lookout from Lombardy , 1915). An examination of the way in which advertising, reviews, and promotional materials worked to reframe these Risorgimento stories within a new historical context shows how the transmedial relationship between the novel, films and paracinematic texts helped to transform De Amicis's civically-minded patriotic tales into an endorsement of Italy's intervention in the First World War.
- Subjects
ITALY; ITALIAN unification; WORLD War I; MOTION pictures; PROTAGONISTS (Persons); DE Amicis, Edmondo, 1846-1908
- Publication
Modern Italy, 2019, Vol 24, Issue 3, p281
- ISSN
1353-2944
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/mit.2019.4