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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_5055
dc.contributor.author	De Lozier Jan
dc.title	From Ancient to Digital. Situating Blackness in Salambo (Domenico Gaido, 1914)
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	The Italian production company Pasquali e Compagnia adapts the French writer Gustave Flaubert’s 1862 novel Salammbô into a ‘$100,000 Spectacle’. Despite the grandiose production values, a leading character named Spendius is not identified in the film’s credits. The record of Spendius on film, literally ‘pellicola’ or ‘with a skin’, continues to dissolve as compressed portions of the film reappear as pixels on YouTube. This paper analyses Spendius’ transnational character by situating him in an absent, yet present spectrum of media.
dc.relation.ispartof	Quaderni di Venezia Arti
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-12-22
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-463-9/from-ancient-to-digital/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-462-2/015
dc.identifier.eissn	2784-8868
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-463-9
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-462-2
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Film studies
dc.subject	Film studies
dc.subject	Italian Studies
dc.subject	Italian Studies
dc.subject	Postcolonial studies
dc.subject	Postcolonial studies
dc.subject	Speculative cinema
dc.subject	Speculative cinema
dc.subject	Videographic criticism
dc.subject	Videographic criticism
dc.subject	YouTube
dc.subject	YouTube

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From Ancient to Digital

Situating Blackness in Salambo (Domenico Gaido, 1914)

Jan De Lozier University of California, Los Angeles, USA

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The Italian production company Pasquali e Compagnia adapts the French writer Gustave Flaubert’s 1862 novel Salammbô into a ‘$100,000 Spectacle’. Despite the grandiose production values, a leading character named Spendius is not identified in the film’s credits. The record of Spendius on film, literally ‘pellicola’ or ‘with a skin’, continues to dissolve as compressed portions of the film reappear as pixels on YouTube. This paper analyses Spendius’ transnational character by situating him in an absent, yet present spectrum of media.

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Dec. 22, 2020

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Keywords: Videographic criticism • YouTube • Speculative cinema • Postcolonial studies • Italian Studies • Film studies

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