Some studies on intermedial crossings, in particular on the classical topic of ut pictura poesis and ekphrasis, have pointed out that the relationships between literature and visual arts reveal the aesthetic configuration and the idea of mimesis underlying literary works (Gabrieloni). From this perspective, we propose to examine, in the first place, the intermedial crossings from the analysis of ut pictura poesis and the ekphrasis of artistic objects to observe the aesthetic conception presen...

The practice of montage constituted one of the major aspects of twentieth-century artistic production and art criticism. The retrieval of preexistent materials and their incorporation to a new totality, by means of juxtaposition, not only represented a relevant strategy—which was susceptible to be used in different artistic realms—but also stimulated important interdisciplinary encounters. This article, which is based on the approach to the collaborative work Laborintus II (1963-1965) by the ...

Since the beginning of the film industry in Japan, many short films and movies based on Western literary works were made, especially during the 1910s and 1920s. Several of those films were based on fashionable Russian literary works that had been staged in Shingeki (new drama) theaters. This study examines the adaptations of Russian literature produced from the early 1910s until the end of the silent-film era in the 1930s, focusing specifically on films based on Tolstoy’s novel Resurrection, ...

Science-fiction cinema has had several important transformations linked both to technological advances within the film industry and to the history of film in general. In many cases, although the films that belong to this genre often have a visual emphasis on special and spectacular effects, other times they are instead part of a specific author’s style and aesthetic. In this instance, in 1979, Andrei Tarkovsky shot Stalker, an adaptation of the novel Roadside Picnic written by the brothers Bo...