1st Edition
Pinocchio, Puppets, and Modernity The Mechanical Body
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
Biography
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.
