Il Tolomeo Rivista di studi postcoloniali | A Postcolonial Studies Journal | Journal d’études postcoloniales | Revista de estudos pós-coloniais

Rivista | Il Tolomeo
Fascicolo | 24 | 2022
Articolo | La banalizzazione dello sguardo: Tempo di uccidere dal romanzo al film

La banalizzazione dello sguardo: Tempo di uccidere dal romanzo al film

Abstract

In 1989 was released the cinematographic adaptation of Ennio Flaiano’s novel (1947) Tempo di uccidere (Time to kill) directed by Giuliano Montaldo. This contribution analyses the narratological features of the two versions, showing how in the medial switch the critical sight on Italian colonialism of the novel is turned to a shallow tale where is instead enforced the traditional view of white male superiority, due to the loss of the inner focus, the misread representation of characters, and the underestimation of episodes which served in the book to undermine colonizer’s self-sight and disclose the identity crisis of the following chapters.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Presentato: 29 Giugno 2022 | Accettato: 14 Ottobre 2022 | Pubblicato 19 Dicembre 2022 | Lingua: it

Keywords NarrativityEnnio FlaianoTransmedialityCinematographyCultural differencePostcolonialism


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