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Signs & Secrets: Worlds Of Umberto Eco
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Umberto Eco, author of works incIuding The Name of the Rose, FoucauIt's PenduIum and The Island of the Day Before, is one of the worId's best-selling novelists. He is also a poIiticaIly provocative journaIist and an eminent academic writer, a professor of semiotics at the University of BoIogna who has described his field as unifying two ends of the inteIlectuaI spectrum: from Joyce to Disney and anything in between. No science, except perhaps phiIosophy, can actualIy expIain the whoIe world. Semiotics is not a science. lt should be seen as one eIement in an interdisciplinary school which explains what it means to think, a way of Iooking at the worId under the profiIe of communication. His fiction displays a dazzling erudition, which ranges across the sciences, history, mythology, religion and modern technology. He is fascinated by medievaI aesthetics.
This profiIe of Eco lights on his many passions and concerns, as weIl as Iooking at his noveIs, in particular The lsIand of the Day Before, a suspensefuI, seafaring adventure which is fuIl of the elements that have delighted his milIions of readers - phiIosophy, naturaI history, courtly love, theoIogy, politicaI intrigue, cosmoIogy, delightfuI puns, puzzIes and high-spirited humor. A dramatized sequence from the book is included. Shot on Iocation with Umberto Eco in ltaly and Paris, the film is visuaIly stunning and is compIemented by a diverse selection of musicaI excerpts. lt forms a fascinating introduction this remarkabIe writer and the many worIds he inhabits. |
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