The following thesis focuses on the Italian director, Luchino Visconti and his first feature film, Ossessione. It evaluates his film in relation not only to the director's biography but also to its historical and cinematic context. It deals with the manner in which Ossessione was adapted from an American roman noir, refashioning it in its own distinctive way. In addition, it analyses the film's relation to generic modes of representation, specifically realism and melodrama, and concludes by situating the work as a precursor of the Neorealist movement of the mid-20th century.

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Submitted by Edisangela Bastos (edisangela@ufpa.br) on 2012-05-21T15:29:57Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertacao_DiscursoLiterarioCinematografico.pdf: 3853366 bytes, checksum: d50e945e52abf5ae91e85bda22c91b05 (MD5) license_rdf: 23898 bytes, checksum: e363e809996cf46ada20da1accfcd9c7 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Edisangela Bastos(edisangela@ufpa.br) on 2012-05-21T15:30:15Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertacao_DiscursoLiterarioCinematografico.pdf: 3853366 bytes, checksum: d50e945e52abf5ae91e85bda22c91b05 (MD5) license_rdf: 23898 bytes, checksum: e363e809996cf46ada20da1accfcd9c7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-05-21T15:30:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertacao_DiscursoLiterarioCinematografico.pdf: 3853366 bytes, checksum: d50e945e52abf5ae91e85bda22c91b05 (MD5) license_rdf: 23898 bytes, checksum: e363e809996cf46ada20da1accfcd9c7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Cet travail traite de deux arts, la Littérature et le Cinéma. C‟est que, bien les textes autonomes et spécífiques, son convertis en rapports distincts a identifier et, dans le même temps, le temps hors travail par rapport à l‟outre. Notre abroche, comme point de départ, le texte littéraire “Le Guépard”, l‟ écrivain italien Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa et, comme un point d‟arrivée, le travail du réalisateur cinematographique homonyme, également italien, Luchino Viscontii. Lampedusa a produit un‟oeuvre que serait reconnue à titre posthume. Il a creé un récit à travers lequel met en évidence l‟histoire et la répresentation de la societé. Bien qu‟il nous a laissé un peu travail caracterisée par la présentation de leurs propre style, marqué par des touches de liberté et de loisirs de la parole. Luchino Visconti, créateur des plus belles ouvres du cinéma de son temps, mis un travail avec vigueur à l‟écran, d‟importants travaux décrivains de renom. Ses films reflètent un point de vue historique précis, et aussi de la désintegration sociale aristocratique. Son film narratif est un mélange constant de l‟audace et la créativité stimulant l‟acte à l‟architecte qu‟il en images magnifiques, en conformité avec la fidelité (ou presque) à l‟ordre de l‟abstraction de l‟imagerie. / Este trabalho trata de duas artes, Literatura e Cinema. Embora autônomas e específicas, traduzem-se em textos distintos, relações de identificação e ao mesmo tempo afastamento de uma obra em relação à outra. Nossa abordagem tem, como ponto de partida, o texto literário "O Leopardo", do escritor italiano Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa e, como ponto de chegada, a obra cinematográfica homônima do cineasta, também italiano, Luchino Visconti. Lampedusa produziu uma obra que só ganharia reconhecimento postumamente. Nela, criou um discurso narrativo através do qual põe em destaque a História e a representação da sociedade. Apesar de ter nos legado uma obra pequena, caracteriza-se por apresentar um estilo próprio, marcado por requintes de liberdade e recriação da palavra. Luchino Visconti, o mais requintado criador da sétima arte de seu tempo, transpôs, com rigor, para a tela, importantes obras de renomados escritores. Seus filmes traduzem uma precisa visão histórica e aristocrática. A narrativa cinematográfica mescla ousadia e criatividade, desafiando a escritura ao arquitetá-la em magníficas imagens, cumprindo com o (quase) intuito da fidelidade a abstração da imagem literária.

Orientador: Maria Betânia Amoroso / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-16T19:16:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Paulini_MarceloMottPeccioli_D.pdf: 1046965 bytes, checksum: f6ca68e63fa8b30e5d0253d075478896 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: No final dos anos 60 e início dos 70, o cineasta italiano Luchino Visconti preparava-se para realizar o seu mais ambicioso projeto: a adaptação cinematográfica de À la Recherche Du Temps Perdu, de Marcel Proust. Escreveu, com sua parceira de muitos trabalhos, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, o roteiro; os intérpretes foram escolhidos, as locações definidas. Por motivos vários, o filme não foi rodado. Desde jovem Visconti fora um leitor atento e fiel de Proust. Tal conhecimento e intimidade com o universo do escritor francês deixou marcas profundas no imaginário do cineasta italiano. Um dos criadores do neorrealismo, na década de 40, orientado então por uma visão marxista, Visconti começa, notadamente a partir de O Leopardo (1963), a filmar sob uma nova perspectiva, centrada em temas ligados à decadência de uma classe - a aristocracia - representada por uma família ou uma personagem nos seus momentos de agonia. A crítica acusou-o de decadente, a que ele respondeu assumindo sua concepção de decadência, reafirmando-a e intensificando-a até seu último filme, O Inocente, em 1976. A influência proustiana, assimilada ao longo dos anos, ficou mais evidente a partir da adaptação do romance de Lampedusa. Deleuze afirmou que Visconti era o cineasta do Tempo, e propôs elementos convergentes entre sua obra e a Recherche de Proust. Um desses elementos responde pela constatação de que a revelação e a consciência do que as personagens poderiam e deveriam ter feito de suas vidas, para dar um sentido a elas, chega sempre tarde demais, quando não há mais tempo para recuperar o que ficou perdido. Importante também são as reflexões sobre o estilo tardio, formuladas e ilustradas por Edward Said. Um estilo fruto de desilusão, desencantamento e impossibilidade de reconciliação e harmonia com a vida, principalmente quando ela chega ao fim. Proust, Visconti, Lampedusa, Thomas Mann, entre inúmeros outros, compõem uma constelação cujo desenho e relações pretendi mostrar nesse trabalho / Abstract: In the late 1960's and early 1970's, Italian movie director Luchino Visconti was preparing to carry out his most ambitious project: the film adaptation of Marcel Proust's À la Recherche du Temps Perdu. He co-wrote the screenplay with longtime partner Suso Cecchi D'Amico; the actors were chosen, the locations defined. Visconti had been an attentive and loyal reader of Proust from an early age. Such knowledge and familiarity with the French author's universe had left a deep mark in the Italian filmmaker's imaginary. One of the creators of neo-realism in the 1940s, and guided by a Marxist view, Visconti begins, notably with The Leopard (1963), to film from a new perspective, centering on themes related to the decadence of a social class - the aristocracy - represented by a family or a character in their moments of agony. The critics called him decadent, to which he responded by assuming his conception of decadence, to be reaffirmed and intensified until his very last film, The Innocent (1976). The influence of Proust, assimilated throughout the years, became more evident as from his adaptation of Lampedusa's novel. Deleuze affirmed that Visconti was the director of Time, and pointed out converging elements between his films and Proust's Recherche. One of those elements corresponds to the realization that the revelation and the awareness of what the characters might or should have done with their lives, so as to give them meaning, always comes too late, when there is no time left to recover what has been lost. Central are also his reflections on late style, as formulated and illustrated by Edward Said - a style that stems from disillusionment, disenchantment and the impossibility of reconciliation and harmony with life, mainly when it comes to an end. Proust, Visconti, Lampedusa, Thomas Mann, among many others, form a constellation whose design and relations this work aims at demonstrating / Doutorado / Literatura e Outras Produções Culturais / Doutor em Teoria e História Literária

“Cinematic Theatricality” is the combination of conventionally “cinematic” and “theatrical” styles. It occurs on both screen and stage, and in intermedial performances. Despite their entwined histories, cinema and theater often define their aesthetics against each other. This dissertation posits that “cinematic theatricality,” in combining these allegedly “oppositional” aesthetic codes, actually intensifies the effects of both media. It is a dynamic that prompts explorations of relationship between intellectual and affective spectatorship in each medium. My definition of “cinematic theatricality” moves beyond dominant Brechtian conceptions of theatricality in cinema, and incorporates theater and performance scholarship that develops different understandings of theatricality as dynamic and affective. These other definitions of theatricality enable more sympathetic and mutually enhancing dialogues with cinema. I locate this cinematic theatricality in the work of four queer directors—Luchino Visconti, Patrice Chéreau, Werner Schroeter and Ivo van Hove—who were active in both European film and theater from the 1950s to the present. These directors’ works are often dismissed as “excessive” because they go “over-the-top” of realist aesthetic norms. The plenitude arising from the combination of cinematic and theatrical effects produces these aesthetic “excess,” styles of surplus that foreground the links between intellectual and emotional experiences of a medium. Different theatricalities produce different variants of excesses, each of which has its own aims and is rooted in these directors’ theatrical careers and their participation in the Regietheater (Director’s Theater) movement in post-war European theater. Nietzsche’s characterization of the “gestural,” decadentist excesses of Wagner’s theater suggests how editing can theatricalize the norms of cinematic continuity editing, creating simultaneous narcotic absorption in and critical distance from historical narratives. Opera’s tension between mimetic representation and “over-the-top” bodily and vocal expressivity leads to rhythmic, melodramatic relationships between the moving camera and the expressive performing body in the transmission of meaning. The queer traditions of camp theatricality, combining both ironic theatrical references and the sincerity and sensual intensity of performances, tie the signifying and sensorial aspects of cinematic spectatorship. In contemporary theater, screen-to-stage adaptations and productions with video and projection are often dismissed as overblown spectacles, too distracting to be meaningful or valuable. Cinematic theatricality on the stage makes video and projection intentional distractions. It forces the spectator to choose where to (not) look, to experience complex phenomena of intermedial “absence” and “presence,” in ways that challenge the norms and ethics of different mediated modes of showing and not showing. Cinema and theater have long expanded their senses of themselves beyond strict ontological characteristics, and our contemporary mediascape further encourages more dynamic understandings of both the cinematic and the theatrical. Cinematic theatricality, in its doubled entwinings, opens a way to combine formalist with affective readings of each medium, thus providing a richer understanding of each medium’s powers and effects. Cinematic theatricality’s permutations—the decadent, operatic, camp, and spectacular—suggest new ways of taxonomizing the “aesthetic categories” of contemporary intermediality’s ardor for excessive aesthetics, and its embrace of excess as a mode suitable for asking serious questions about history, politics, and identity.

La presente investigación gira en torno a la película “Morte a Venezia” y hace hincapié en la técnica de transposición cinematográfica aplicada por Luchino Visconti a la novela corta de Thomas Mann, “Der tod und Venedig”. Se revisa las teorías acerca de la adaptación cinematográfica en general y específicamente las reflexiones que ha suscitado la paradigmática transposición de “Morte a Venezia”. La tesis pone de relieve la centralidad de la cita del “Fedro” de Platón en dicha novella y cuestiona la interpretación de Mario Vargas Llosa sobre el intertexto platónico. De esta manera facilita la distinción entre la obra escrita y el film en temas de ética, estética y mística. Finalmente, se concluye en que una buena transposición es paradójica, pues logra que dos obras distintas sean poéticamente la misma. / The present research examines the film "Morte a Venezia" and focuses on the technique of cinematographic transposition that Luchino Visconti applied to Thomas Mann's short novel, "Der tod und Venedig". The theories about the cinematographic adaptation in general and specifically the reflections that the paradigmatic transposition of "Morte a Venezia" has provoked are reviewed. The essay highlights the centrality of the quote from Plato's "Phaedrus" in the novel and questions Mario Vargas Llosa's interpretation of the Platonic intertext. In this way, it facilitates the distinction between the written work and the film in ethics, aesthetics and mystic themes. Finally, it is concluded that a good transposition is paradoxical, since it achieves that two different works are poetically the same.