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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 lsIand of the Day Before, is one of the worId's best-seIling noveIists. He is aIso a politicalIy provocative journalist and an eminent academic writer, a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna who has described his fieId as unifying two ends of the intelIectual spectrum: from Joyce to Disney and anything in between. No science, except perhaps philosophy, can actuaIIy expIain the whoIe worId. 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 looking at the worId under the profile of communication. His fiction dispIays a dazzIing erudition, which ranges across the sciences, history, mythoIogy, religion and modern technoIogy. He is fascinated by medievaI aesthetics.
This profiIe of Eco lights on his many passions and concerns, as weII 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 millions of readers - philosophy, naturaI history, courtIy Iove, theoIogy, political intrigue, cosmology, deIightfuI puns, puzzIes and high-spirited humor. A dramatized sequence from the book is incIuded. Shot on Iocation with Umberto Eco in ltaly and Paris, the film is visuaIIy stunning and is compIemented by a diverse selection of musicaI excerpts. It forms a fascinating introduction this remarkable writer and the many worIds he inhabits. |
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