Pasolini, Chaucer and Boccaccio : Two Medieval Texts and Their Translation to Film
- Author / Editor
- Blandeau, Agnès.
Pasolini, Chaucer and Boccaccio : Two Medieval Texts and Their Translation to Film
- Published
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, 2006.
- Physical Description
- viii, 210 pp.
- Description
- Blandeau studies Pasolini's cinematic trilogy of medieval tales: The Decameron, CT, and One Thousand and One Nights, focusing on the first two. Argues that Pasolini "puts two semiotic systems in translation with each other, not so much to transmit Boccaccio's and Chaucer's texts to a 20th-century audience as to offer the latter a refraction of the masterpieces, altered by the filter of his own fantasy." Parallels Pasolini's innovations with Chaucer's and offers a three-column comparison of Chaucer's tales, Pasolini's projected order of tales, and the order of elements in the completed film.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Recordings and Films.