La sceneggiatura nell'epoca della sua "intermedialità"

Il caso studio di Luigi Malerba

Abstract

This paper intends to advance some original analysis models of one of the most interesting and singular Italian writers and screenwriters of the second post-war period: Luigi Malerba. The essential starting point of this research is constituted by a capillary “genetic editing” applied by us to the huge corpus of unpublished Malerbian writings, with the intention of documenting the different passages from the subject to the “definitive” script. As evidenced by the troubled production of Women and Soldiers (1954), Malerba’s scripts present themselves to us in a hybrid guise of writings that force their own nature, without fear of contaminating themselves with other genres. The numerous and heterogeneous corpus of texts examined by us gives us a portrait of Malerba far beyond his role as a simple screenwriter, but rather as an authentic co-author, although aware of that prejudice – prevailing for several decades – which saw an unjustified underestimation of the role of the screenplay within the !lm system. Finally, our investigation recognizes Malerba a pioneering role as a screenwriter able to place himself on the ridge between different literatures, languages and media, prefiguring the unprecedented location of the “object-script” that will be recorded in the multimedia and intermediary context of the third millennium, characterized by the crisis of the traditional narrative paradigm and the advent of “transmedia storytelling”.