In 1982, the Italian television network RAI produced a TV series by Giuliano Montaldo on the travels of the Venetian merchant Marco Polo. Broadcast in forty-six countries, the Emmy Award-winning cinematic project, which involved partners from the United States, Japan, Germany, and France, stood as the first film co-production between Italy and China and represented a relevant step in the consolidation of the Sino-Italian friendship after the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1970. This paper aims to research the transnational dynamics enacted by Marco Polo during the Sino-Italian co-production and presents the making of the TV series in China from ideation to distribution. The study includes an original interview with the director Montaldo (2022).
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-3727-7284
Titolo del capitolo
Marco Polo returns to China: Giuliano Montaldo’s TV series (1982)
Autori
Chiara Lepri
Lingua
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0068-4.10
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2023
Copyright
© 2023 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Titolo del libro
Words and visions around/about Chinese transnational mobilities 流动
Curatori
Valentina Pedone, Miriam Castorina
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
204
Anno di pubblicazione
2023
Copyright
© 2023 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0068-4
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0067-7
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0068-4
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0069-1
Collana
Studi e saggi
ISSN della collana
2704-6478
e-ISSN della collana
2704-5919