Cinema e letteratura: lo stato della questione o l'effetto rebound rivisitato

Starting from the need to dispel the misunderstanding according to which a link between cinema and literature must necessarily exist – while the knowledge of cinema history teaches us that this is not the case – this study proposes a survey of cinema and literature studies through Gérard Genette question on the mutual influences between the literary and filmic creation. In fact, Genette reaches the conclusion that, unlike the filmmaker, the novelist is not obliged to put the camera somewhere, because he doesn't have one; but afterwords he adds that today he can pretend to have one, through the rebound effect of one medium on another. Thus, he suggests that if there really are mutual influences of one medium on the other, they can only have a historical value. It is today, in fact, that the novelist can write as if he were pretending to have a movie camera: today that the movie camera exists. This study, therefore, asks how many things have changed since the camera exists and in how many contexts the historical dimension that characterizes the reciprocity of exchanges between cinema and literature can intervene. Even in the studies on their mutual influences. And in the study of reading, which has certainly changed since cinema exists.