L'Eternauta is Alessandro Polidoro Editore's series dedicated to contemporary languages. Edited by Gino Frezza, Lorenzo Di Paola, and Mario Tirino, it is chaired by a prestigious international scientific committee. With L'Eternauta, we will interpret comics and the media through the lens of social sciences, communication, and culture, delving into aesthetic, technical, and narrative mechanisms. The series opens with a limited-edition issue zero dedicated to Stan Lee, Stan the Man. The first title, coming out in December, is Gino Frezza's Fumetti, anime del visibile; first published with Meltemi in 1999, it returns today in an updated edition.
Fumetti, anime del visibile investigates the vital and necessary role played by comics in the larger and more complex media system. Frezza's book starts from the origins, from the formation of the apparatus and communication systems of comics; it goes through the symbols and images of superheroes and heroes of paper adventure, highlighting their ability to represent decisive moments of the twentieth century and technological evolution; it recapitulates the intense and fruitful relationships woven with cinema; it investigates the success and cultural roots of horror comics from the Sixties to today. An extraordinary icon of the present, changeable, radical, transgressive, comics are shown as a living and surprising form of contemporary culture. (Preface by Mario Tirino)
Gino Frezza (Naples, 1952) is a full professor of Sociology of Cultural Processes at the University of Salerno. In addition to this book, first published in 1999, he has published on comics: The innocent image. Cinema and early American comics (1978), Melancholic writing. Screenplay and seriality in Italian comics (1987), The myth machine between film and comics (1995), The comics cards. Strategies and portraits of a generational medium (2008), Mutant clouds. Visual writings and the imagery of comics (2017). On cinema he has published: Cinematograph and cinema (1996), Until the last film (2001), Night Effect. The metaphors of cinema (2006), Fades. Mutations of cinema (2013), Figures of the imagery. Mutations of cinema from analog to digital (2015). He recently edited the collective volume Endoapocalisse. The Walking Dead, the digital imaginary, the post-human (2016) and the book by director Salvatore Piscicelli, L'imitazione della vita. Scritti di cinema 1970-2016 (2018).
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