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Rebecca West, Creepy Venice: Thomas Mann, Daphne du Maurier, Patricia Highsmith, Ian McEwan
Creepy Venice: Thomas Mann, Daphne du Maurier, Patricia Highsmith, Ian McEwan
University of Chicago
October 20, 2018
Rebecca West, William R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Service Professor Emerita in the Departments of Romance Languages and Literatures and Cinema and Media Studies
Venice is Italy's honeymoon city, a lushly romantic floating dream of gently gliding gondolas and quaint traffic-free streets and squares through which to meander. Some writers and film directors, however, have captured another dark, dangerous, and even positively macabre Venice. From Thomas Mann's infected city (Death in Venice) to Daphne du Maurier's haunted site of both past and future loss (Don't Look Now); from Patricia Highsmith's labyrinth in which a deadly cat-and-mouse game is carried out (Those Who Walk Away) to Ian McEwan's setting for erotic menace (The Comfort of Strangers), these books and film adaptations—of all but Highsmith's novel—give us a creepy Venice distinctly at odds with its image as a city for lovers. Let's explore the how and why of this alternative imagining of the Serenissima, Queen of the Adriatic.
Rebecca West taught courses and wrote scholarly books and articles on modern Italian literature, literary texts by women authors, and on film adaptation, among other cinema topics, for 40 years until her retirement in 2013. One of her current projects focuses on Patricia Highsmith's novels that are set in Italy. West is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Service Professor Emerita in the Departments of Romance Languages and Literatures and Cinema and Media Studies.
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SONO SOLO FANTASMI, la nuova commedia di Christian De Sica, con Christian De Sica, Carlo Buccirosso, Gian Marco Tognazzi, Gianni Parisi e la partecipazione straordinaria di Leo Gullotta.
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THOMAS (Christian De Sica), ex mago in bolletta, e CARLO (Carlo Buccirosso), napoletano, sottomesso a moglie e suocero settentrionali, sono due fratellastri che si rincontrano dopo anni a Napoli per la morte del padre Vittorio, giocatore incallito e donnaiolo. Scoprono di avere un terzo fratello, UGO (Gianmarco Tognazzi), apparentemente un po’ tonto ma in realtà un piccolo genio. L’eredità, agognata da Thomas e Carlo, sfuma a causa dei debiti del padre e i tre hanno una grande idea: sfruttare la superstizione e credulità napoletana, diventando degli ‘acchiappa fantasmi’. Proprio quando l’attività inaspettatamente sembra avere molto successo, lo spirito del padre Vittorio s’impossessa del corpo di Carlo. Thomas e Carlo si convincono che i fantasmi esistono davvero. Nel frattempo i fantasmi catturati dal trio si liberano e vanno a risvegliare il fantasma di una strega che minaccia di distruggere Napoli. Con l'aiuto del padre i tre fratelli cercheranno di salvare la città.
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Venice | Wikipedia audio article
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Venice
00:02:54 1 Etymology
00:04:19 2 History
00:04:28 2.1 Origins
00:10:12 2.2 Expansion
00:16:33 2.3 Decline
00:18:22 2.4 Modern age
00:20:30 2.5 Subsidence
00:20:48 2.5.1 Foundations
00:21:44 2.5.2 History
00:24:52 3 Geography
00:25:01 3.1 Sestieri
00:26:38 3.2 Climate
00:27:17 4 Government
00:30:05 5 Economy
00:33:08 5.1 Tourism
00:35:51 5.1.1 Minimising the effects of tourism
00:39:25 5.2 Foreign words of Venetian origin
00:40:04 6 Transportation
00:40:13 6.1 In the historic centre
00:42:20 6.1.1 Waterways
00:43:13 6.2 Public transport
00:43:32 6.2.1 Lagoon area
00:44:12 6.2.2 Lido and Pellestrina islands
00:44:41 6.2.3 Mainland
00:45:54 6.3 Trains
00:47:04 6.4 Ports
00:47:59 6.5 Airports
00:49:30 7 Sport
00:50:58 8 Education
00:52:07 9 Demographics
00:55:33 10 Culture
00:55:42 10.1 Literature
00:58:22 10.1.1 In literature and adapted works
00:59:38 10.2 Art and printing
01:02:06 10.3 Venetian gothic architecture
01:02:41 10.4 Rococo architectural style
01:04:21 10.5 Glass
01:05:47 10.6 Cinema, media, and popular culture
01:06:12 10.7 Festivals
01:07:36 10.7.1 In films
01:09:19 10.8 Music
01:10:47 10.8.1 The orchestra
01:11:04 10.8.2 In popular music
01:11:22 10.8.3 In video games
01:12:07 10.9 Photography
01:12:45 10.10 Cuisine
01:14:23 10.11 Fashion and shopping
01:15:54 11 Notable people
01:23:32 12 International relations
01:24:11 12.1 Twin towns and sister cities
01:24:40 12.2 Cooperation agreements
01:25:12 13 See also
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Venice (, VEN-iss; Italian: Venezia [veˈnɛttsja] (listen); Venetian: Venesia, Venexia [veˈnɛsja]) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.
It is situated across a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The islands are located in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay that lies between the mouths of the Po and the Piave rivers (more exactly between the Brenta and the Sile). Parts of Venice are renowned for the beauty of their settings, their architecture, and artwork. The lagoon and a part of the city are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.In 2018, 260,897 people resided in Comune di Venezia, of whom around 55,000 live in the historical city of Venice (Centro storico). Together with Padua and Treviso, the city is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE), with a total population of 2.6 million. PATREVE is only a statistical metropolitan area.The name is derived from the ancient Veneti people who inhabited the region by the 10th century BC. The city was historically the capital of the Republic of Venice. Venice has been known as the La Dominante, Serenissima, Queen of the Adriatic, City of Water, City of Masks, City of Bridges, The Floating City, and City of Canals.
The 697-1797 Republic of Venice was a major financial and maritime power during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and a staging area for the Crusades and the Battle of Lepanto, as well as a very important center of commerce (especially silk, grain, and spice) and art in the 13th century up to the end of the 17th century. The city-state of Venice is considered to have been the first real international financial center which gradually emerged from the 9th century to its peak in the 14th century. This made Venice a wealthy city throughout most of its history.It is also known for its several important artistic movements, especially the Renaissance period. After the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna, the Republic was annexed by the Austrian Empire, until it became part of the Kingdom of Italy in 1866, following a referendum held as a result of the Third Italian War of Independence. Venice has played an important role in the history of symphonic and operatic music, and it is the birthplace of Antonio Vivaldi. Venice has been ranked the most beautiful city in the world as of 2016. The city is facing some major challenges, however, including financial diffi ...