This essay focuses on Italian opera in film. Initially, the theory is reconsidered, showing how intermediality, intertextuality, and remediation are perspectives that coexist in studies of opera in film, yet they are not entirely overlapping. A case study is then examined, the Italian film The Spider’s Stratagem (Strategia del ragno, 1970) by Bernardo Bertolucci, highlighting how an approach based on the dynamics of remediation is essential, to fully understand how, in this film, opera contributes to define a way of critically representing and analysing history.
Giuggioli, M. (2025). Opera in (Italian) Film: From Intermediality to Remediation. In L.C. Chiara Casarin (a cura di), Remediating Opera: Crossing and Encounters Between Film and Music Studies (pp. 99-107). Venezia : Edizioni Ca'Foscari.
Opera in (Italian) Film: From Intermediality to Remediation
Matteo Giuggioli
2025-01-01
Abstract
This essay focuses on Italian opera in film. Initially, the theory is reconsidered, showing how intermediality, intertextuality, and remediation are perspectives that coexist in studies of opera in film, yet they are not entirely overlapping. A case study is then examined, the Italian film The Spider’s Stratagem (Strategia del ragno, 1970) by Bernardo Bertolucci, highlighting how an approach based on the dynamics of remediation is essential, to fully understand how, in this film, opera contributes to define a way of critically representing and analysing history.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
