"I'm an artist"

While researching for my next paper on movies, I thought to share with you a paper I wrote about two years ago. It regards the wonderful "The Artist" directed by Michel Hazanavicius. From the moment I watched the trailer for the first time I absolutely fell in love with it. And then it was my study "companion" in more than one occasion.

I won't say more about my paper here, but let you discover it - just visit my page on academia.edu. I hope you will enjoy it as much I enjoyed the movie and writing about it. Please don't hesitate to share your thoughts either about the film or my paper.

Hope to hear from you soon!

Literature and Movies: The Count of Monte Cristo

Hello, again! I had the idea of this blog almost two years ago, but somehow I couldn't follow the road I imagined at that moment.

Since then, however, movies have become a constant interest for me and I do have great plans for the future concerning film studies.

I actually consecrated almost the entire first half of this year to a study of the adaptations of The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. For over a month I watch and analyzed the movies (wow, they are so many), then I spend a few weeks to write my paper. The purpose of all this: to participate in a conference on film studies, in Istanbul. It all started when I read again Dumas' novel (although it was like for the first time), this time directly in French, and I discovered a completely different story of what is usually considered The Count of Monte Cristo - meaning a story of revenge. In my eyes, Edmond Dantès' story developed in a much deeper way and if I were to reduce it to an essential idea it would be a man's relation with God and his (subconscious) search for redemption.

This is just a small introduction, but if you want to read more, you can find my full paper here.

Enjoy it and please do not hesitate to leave me your comments!