{"pk":40656,"title":"“Quando si ama qualcuno lo si ama per qualcun altro”: Francesca Comencini’s Retelling of Svevo’s Zeno","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In her 2001 film based on two chapters of Italo Svevo’s \nLa coscienza di Zeno\n, \nLe parole di mio padre\n, Francesca Comencini combines a realistic mise-en-scène with an oneiric and turbulent filmic syntax, presenting Zeno Cosini’s relationship with his dying father and his involvement with the Malfenti family after his father’s death. The essay explores the use of filmic enunciation, rather than linear narrative, to depict Zeno’s relationships with Giovanni, Ada, Alberta and Augusta Malfenti, and their relationships with each other. It argues that such a technique, which employs minimal dialogue, intense use of close-ups, darkness and blurring – and is comparable to the non-commercial style theorized by Lyotard as “acinema” – allows the director to focus on all the characters (and not simply Zeno), specifically as regards the struggle with the father figure and the related struggles of artistic expression and the negotiation of familial and erotic love.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Francesca Comencini, Cinema, Italo Svevo"}],"section":"Vol.7: Moving Images","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6jn9n298","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Thomas","middle_name":"Erling","last_name":"Peterson","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Georgia","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2016-04-28T21:18:17+03:00","date_accepted":"2016-04-28T21:18:17+03:00","date_published":"2017-12-28T18:15:48+02:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/40656/galley/30513/download/"}]}