A Thin Felt Mattatore between Industry, Intermediality and Stardom
Michael Twyman argues that “every object tells a story, or at least reveals some information about something” (2008: 25). So what can two puppets made at the end of the 1950s, inspired by the television show Il Mattatore (Daniele D’Anza, 1959) and the likeness of Vittorio Gassman, tell us? In order...
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| description | Michael Twyman argues that “every object tells a story, or at least reveals some information about something” (2008: 25). So what can two puppets made at the end of the 1950s, inspired by the television show Il Mattatore (Daniele D’Anza, 1959) and the likeness of Vittorio Gassman, tell us? In order to recover the complexity of the two toys and to question their possible value in the context of research on the history of cinema, this article proposes to examine them from the point of view of industry, the systemic interrelation between media and the study of stardom. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c11ae7eef16d45c8876c4bb7175196942025-01-15T15:08:47ZengUniversity of BolognaCinergie2280-94812024-12-01269310710.6092/issn.2280-9481/2012418492A Thin Felt Mattatore between Industry, Intermediality and StardomMartina Zanco0Università degli Studi di UdineMichael Twyman argues that “every object tells a story, or at least reveals some information about something” (2008: 25). So what can two puppets made at the end of the 1950s, inspired by the television show Il Mattatore (Daniele D’Anza, 1959) and the likeness of Vittorio Gassman, tell us? In order to recover the complexity of the two toys and to question their possible value in the context of research on the history of cinema, this article proposes to examine them from the point of view of industry, the systemic interrelation between media and the study of stardom.https://cinergie.unibo.it/article/view/20124ephemeravittorio gassmanitalian cinema industrytransmedialitystardom |
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| title | A Thin Felt Mattatore between Industry, Intermediality and Stardom |
| title_full | A Thin Felt Mattatore between Industry, Intermediality and Stardom |
| title_fullStr | A Thin Felt Mattatore between Industry, Intermediality and Stardom |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Thin Felt Mattatore between Industry, Intermediality and Stardom |
| title_short | A Thin Felt Mattatore between Industry, Intermediality and Stardom |
| title_sort | thin felt mattatore between industry intermediality and stardom |
| topic | ephemera vittorio gassman italian cinema industry transmediality stardom |
| url | https://cinergie.unibo.it/article/view/20124 |
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