Maddalena Pennacchia

Márta Minier

Beginning with the premise that the biopic is a form of adaptation and an example of intermediality, this collection examines the multiplicity of 'source texts' and the convergence of different media in this genre, alongside the concurrent issues of fidelity and authenticity that accompany this form. The contributors focus on big and small screen biopics of British celebrities from the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, attending to their myth-making and myth-breaking potential. Related topics are the contemporary British biopic's participation in the production and consumption of celebrated lives, and the biopic's generic fluidity and hybridity as evidenced in its relationship to such forms as the bio-docudrama. Offering case studies of film biographies of literary and cultural icons, including Elizabeth I, Elizabeth II, Diana Princess of Wales, John Lennon, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Beau Brummel, Carrington and Beatrix Potter, the essays address how British identity and heritage are interrogated in the (re)telling and showing of these lives, and how the reimagining of famous lives for the screen is influenced by recent processes of manufacturing celebrity.

Adaptation, Intermediality and the British Celebrity Biopic

Marinella Rocca Longo

La creatività è uno degli elementi alla base della competitività e della sostenibilità nell’ultimo secolo e in quello che è appena iniziato. Di particolare valore è ritenuta la capacità di aumentare il capitale interculturale producendo esperienze sociali e relazioni internazionali attraverso eventi memorabili nel turismo e nel tempo libero. Il notevole sviluppo dell’industria mediatica nell’economia postindustriale, più rivolta ai beni intangibili che non a quelli tangibili, aggiunge nuovi elementi di discussione al ‘turismo’ inteso come un settore ibrido, fortemente collegato sia alle discipline economiche che a quelle umanistiche. In particolare, i contributi contenuti in questa pubblicazione intendono definire il concetto di turismo creativo esaminandolo nella varietà dei suoi aspetti a partire da una definizione flessibile di identità culturale. Da questo punto di vista ogni aspetto del sistema turistico dovrebbe essere ripensato e riformulato: dal ruolo che occupa nell’istruzione superiore alla capacità di incidere sulla formazione dell’identità culturale, fino all’organizzazione pratica ed economica delle singole offerte turistiche.

Turismo creativo e identità culturale

Nancy Isenberg

Maria Del Sapio Garbero

Ancient Rome has always been considered a compendium of City and World. In the Renaissance, an era of epistemic fractures, when the clash between the 'new science' (Copernicus, Galileo, Vesalius, Bacon, etcetera) and the authority of ancient texts produced the very notion of modernity, the extended and expanding geography of ancient Rome becomes, for Shakespeare and the Elizabethans, a privileged arena in which to question the nature of bodies and the place they hold in a changing order of the universe. Drawing on the rich scenario provided by Shakespeare's Rome, and adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, the authors of this volume address the way in which the different bodies of the earthly and heavenly spheres are re-mapped in Shakespeare's time and in early modern European culture. More precisely, they investigate the way bodies are fashioned to suit or deconstruct a culturally articulated system of analogies between earth and heaven, microcosm and macrocosm. As a whole, this collection brings to the fore a wide range of issues connected to the Renaissance re-mapping of the world and the human. It should interest not only Shakespeare scholars but all those working on the interaction between sciences and humanities.

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