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| Cinema & Cartoons: Comic characters on the big screen Rovereto, Carpi, Pordenone, Vicenza 2006-2007 In collaboration with MART (the Museum of modern and contemporary art, Trento and Rovereto), Carpi town council, Pordenone city council, Vicenza city council and Universal Studios Curated by Roberto Festi and Maurizio Scudiero. Catalogue by esaExpoedizioni On 28 December 1895, the Lumière brothers "invented" the cinema with their presentation of the train arriving in Lyon station to a bewildered and terrified audience; on 16 February of the following year, Richard Felton Outcault "invented" the comic strip in New York, by publishing a colour print in "The World". It was centred on a young boy in a yellow shirt with the words "The Yellow Kid" on his chest He is now commonly accepted to be the original comic hero. Scholars and industry professionals have pondered the significance of the connection between cinema and comics at length, and the debate has addressed the differences and the affinities between the two media. The exhibition aims to shed light on the profound interrelationships which have developed between the two media, revealing an uncommon ability to redefine the collective imagination by storytelling through the use of images. The show evolves chronologically, from the early twentieth century until the present day, covering both American and European output and featuring 34 individual characters, from Arcibaldo and Petronilla to Tintin, Flash Gordon to Dick Tracy, Batman to Superman, Barbarella to Lucky Luke, Tex Willer to Spider-Man, and Valentina to Sin City. Each one is documented through valuable rare original materials including posters, cinema playbills, period publications, and plates and strips by the foremost writers in the history of comics. |
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