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Great example of journaling for students, but to do in Italian.
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Sara Fanelli At MoMA, NYC ​   
Pinocchio: From Michelangelo to Guillermo del Toro 
Explore an illustrator’s reflections on the little wooden boy who has captivated audiences for nearly 150 years. @ MoMA here

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Pinocchio is the most translated Italian book (in 260 languages) and, after the Bible, the most widely read.
​The Adventures of Pinocchio - Le avventure di Pinocchio 
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commonly shortened to Pinocchio is a children's fantasy novel by Italian author Carlo Collodi. It is about the mischievous adventures of an animated marionette named Pinocchio and his father, a poor woodcarver named Geppetto.   Here the Wikipedia page 
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The original Pinocchio is way more dark than the Walt Disney version!

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The Fox and the Cat, dressed as bandits, hang Pinocchio
In the original, serialized version, Pinocchio dies a gruesome death: hanged for his innumerable faults, at the end of Chapter 15. At the request of his editor, Collodi added chapters 16–36, in which the Fairy with Turquoise Hair rescues Pinocchio and eventually transforms him into a real boy, when he acquires a deeper understanding of himself, making the story more suitable for children. In the second half of the book, the maternal figure of the Blue-haired Fairy is the dominant character, versus the paternal figure of Geppetto in the first part. In February 1883, the story was published in a single book with huge success.
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Children's literature was a new idea in Collodi's time, an innovation in the 19th century. Thus in content and style it was new and modern, opening the way to many writers of the following century.
​Pinocchio's Records

1881 - First published on a weekly magazine for children, Giornale per i Bambini
1899 - First stage adaptation
1911 -  pioneer of cinema: a 45-minute hand-coloured silent film
1932 - Japanese movie with an experimental technique using animated puppets,
1940 -  Walt Disney version was a groundbreaking achievement in the area of effects animation.
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E-book: "L'Italiano al cinema, l'italiano nel cinema" pubblicato dall'Accademia della Crusca.
Si puo' scaricare la versione PDF qui:
http://www.goware-apps.it/free/free_pub/italiano_cinema/italiano_cinema.pdf
 
Podcast: "SENTI CHI PARLA". Conversazioni sulla lingua italiana in 15 famosissimi film italiani : sono15 puntate del Cinema alla Radio dedicate ad altrettante pellicole: dall'espressionismo di Toto' al latino maccheronico de L'armata Brancaleone fino all'italiano letterario de Il Gattopardo (qui sotto). 

Video: IL CINEMA PARLA ITALIANO
Il video è dedicato al rapporto tra lingua italiana e cinema e verrà diffuso sulle Reti RAI e nei cinema, ed è disponibile  anche sul canale YouTube della Farnesina e sul Portale della Lingua Italiana (www.linguaitaliana.esteri.it) nella sezione i-italiamo.
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