Pinocchio, Puppets, and Modernity

The Mechanical Body

Katia Pizzi

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Routledge
31 May 2023

Children's literature studies: general

Series: Children's Literature and Culture

This study assesses the significance of Pinocchio in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in addition to his status as the creature of a nineteenth century traversed by a cultural enthusiasm for dummies, puppets, and marionettes. This collection identifies him as a figure characterized by a 'fluid identity,' informed with transition, difference, joie de vivre, otherness, displacement, and metamorphosis, making Pinocchio a truly modern, indeed postmodern and posthuman, cultural icon. Pinocchio, Puppets and Modernity explores this crucial and as yet little visited field, reassessing Pinocchio's genealogy and progeny, as well as illuminating both the wider context and more specific cultural manifestations of the mechanical-human interface in the domains of theatre, the fine arts, literature, radio, and even virtual reality coherently with the digital metamorphosis of our times.

The wide-ranging scope of this exploration encompasses Italian, French, and English literature, dummies and marionettes in modernist and contemporary theatre, the fairytale tradition, and traditional and contemporary painting, as well as the older and newer media of radio, television, cinema, and the Internet. The diverse, comparative, and multimedia focus of this original discussion testifies to the enduring transcultural legacy of Pinocchio. Eminently sellable as a traditional cultural icon, Pinocchio is equally impactful and relevant for a globalized, multicultural, and virtual society, from Collodi to Disney and beyond.

Katia Pizzi is Senior Lecturer in Italian at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. She has published volumes on cultural identities, including A City in Search of an Author (2001) and The Cultural Identities of European Cities (2010), and on children's literature and illustration.

Edited by: Katia Pizzi
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032569673
ISBN 10: 1032569670
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
Pages: 246
Publication Date: 31 May 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction. Katia Pizzi 1. Carlo Collodi and the Rhythmical Body. Between Giuseppe Mazzini and George Sand. Jean Perrot 2. Puppets on a String: The Unnatural History of Human Reproduction. Ann Lawson Lucas 3. Workshops of Creation, Filthy and Not: Collodi’s Pinocchio and Shelley’s Frankenstein. Charles Klopp 4. The Manufacture of a Modern Puppet Type: The Anatomy of Alfred Jarry’s Monsieur Ubu and its Significance. Jill Fell 5. Man is Non-Man: Mannequins, Puppets and Marionettes in the Theatre of Dario Fo. Christopher Cairns 6. Unpainting Collodi’s Fireplace (with an interview with the author). Stephen Wilson 7. Pinocchio and the Mechanical Body: Luciano Folgore’s Papers at the Getty Research Institute Library. Katia Pizzi 8. The Myth of Pinocchio. Metamorphosis of a Puppet from Collodi’s Pages to the Screen. Salvatore Consolo 9. The Watchful Mirror: Pinocchio’s Adventures Re-created by Roberto Benigni. Salvatore Consolo 10. Beyond the Mechanical Body: Digital Pinocchio. Massimo Riva

Katia Pizzi is Senior Lecturer in Italian at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London. She has published volumes on cultural identities, especially A City in Search of an Author (2001) and The Cultural Identities of European Cities (2010), and on children’s literature and illustration.