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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 including The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum and The lsland of the Day Before, is one of the world's best-selIing novelists. He is also a politicaIly provocative journaIist and an eminent academic writer, a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna who has described his field as unifying two ends of the inteIlectual 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 dazzIing erudition, which ranges across the sciences, history, mythoIogy, 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 eIements that have deIighted his milIions of readers - phiIosophy, naturaI history, courtIy 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 seIection of musical excerpts. It forms a fascinating introduction this remarkable writer and the many worIds he inhabits. |
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