Straw Oresteses and Buried Electras. Suggestions of Antiquity in Luchino Visconti’s Sandra

Authors

  • Mauro Giori University of Pisa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-4797/2206

Keywords:

Luchino Visconti, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Etruscans

Abstract

Ancient greek tragedy notoriously provided director Luchino Visconti and his screenwriters with invaluable inspiration while they were writing Sandra. Working on unpublished documents and collating six different versions of the screenplay, this essay aims to establish when and in which ways the three versions of the Atridis’s myth by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides exactly influenced Visconti’s project and how they contributed to its basic ambiguity. At the same time, it shows the relevance of others suggestions of the antiquity, and in particular that of Etruscans inspired by Gabriele D’Annunzio’s novel Forse che sì forse che no.

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Author Biography

Mauro Giori, University of Pisa

Mauro Giori achieved the PhD in History of Visual and Performing Arts at Università di Pisa. His research is particularly devoted to modern cinema. He is the author of Alfred Hitchcock. Psyco (2009), Poetica e prassi della trasgressione in Luchino Visconti. 1935-1962 (2011) and Luchino Visconti. Rocco e i suoi fratelli (2011).

Published

2012-06-13

How to Cite

Giori, M. (2012). Straw Oresteses and Buried Electras. Suggestions of Antiquity in Luchino Visconti’s Sandra. LANX. Journal of the Scuola Di Specializzazione in Beni Archeologici - Università Degli Studi Di Milano, (9), 86–109. https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-4797/2206

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