{"product_id":"shoot-the-notebooks-of-serafino-gubbio-cinematograph-operator-paperback","title":"Shoot!: The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio, Cinematograph Operator - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLuigi Pirandello\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in Italian in 1915, \u003ci\u003eShoot!\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the first novels to take as its subject the heady world of early motion pictures. Based on the absurdist journals of fictional Italian camera operator Serafino Gubbio, \u003ci\u003eShoot!\u003c\/i\u003e documents the infancy of film in Europe-complete with proto-divas, laughable production schedules, and cost-cutting measures with priceless effects--and offers a glimpse of the modern world through the camera's lens. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eShoot!, \u003c\/i\u003e presented here in its 1927 English translation, is a classic example of Nobel Prize-winning Sicilian playwright Luigi Pirandello's (1867-1936) literary talent and genius for blurring the line between art and reality. From the film studio Kosmograph, Pirandello's Gubbio steadily winds the crank of his camera by day and scribbles with his pen by night, revealing the world both mundane and melodramatic that unfolds in front of his camera. Through Gubbio's narrative-saturated with fantasy and folly-Pirandello grapples with the philosophical implications of modernity. Like much of Pirandello's work, \u003ci\u003eShoot!\u003c\/i\u003e parodies human weaknesses, drawing attention to the themes of isolation and madness as emerging tendencies in the modern world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Enhanced by new critical commentaries, \u003ci\u003eShoot!\u003c\/i\u003e is an entertaining caricature, capturing early twentieth-century Italian filmmaking and revealing its truths as only a parody can.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSicilian writer \u003cb\u003eLuigi Pirandello\u003c\/b\u003e (1867-1936) is the author of several novels, short stories, and plays, including \u003ci\u003eSix Characters in Search of an Author\u003c\/i\u003e. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934. \u003cb\u003eC. K. Scott Moncrieff \u003c\/b\u003e(1889-1930) translated many of Marcel Proust's writings, among other important works. \u003cb\u003eP. Adams Sitney\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of the Council of the Humanities and Visual Arts at Princeton University and the author of \u003ci\u003eVisionary Film: An American Avant-Garde in the 20th Century\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.73 x 7.98 x 6.46 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42039524130896,"sku":"9780226669823","price":46.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/9540\/0016\/files\/QWVNOEFIanNLTkp2U0Faai9ENjhsdz09.webp?v=1771841571","url":"https:\/\/palm-malen-gift-shop-pmrc.myshopify.com\/products\/shoot-the-notebooks-of-serafino-gubbio-cinematograph-operator-paperback","provider":"Palm Malen Gift Shop -PMRC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}