Shoot!: The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio, Cinematograph Operator

by Luigi Pirandello

Book Overview

Originally published in Italian in 1915, Shoot is one of the first novels to take as its subject the heady world of early motion pictures. Based on the absurdist journals of fictional Italian camera operator Serafino Gubbio, Shoot documents the infancy of film in Europe--complete with proto-divas, laughable production schedules, and cost-cutting measures with priceless effects---and offers a glimpse of the modern world through the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226669823
• ISBN13: 9780226669823
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 8.0"