Silent Beginnings: Pinocchio (1911)

I absolutely had to put this out before the year of our puppet boy comes to an end. Friend Tasha and I made our way through this chaotic odyssey, and even began forming a list of the top corporate zaddies of past and present (Bob Chapek never made it in). After throwing tomatoes at the Dis+ remake, we end on a note of emotional resonance and lightly touch on the ways in which we dis/agree with the novel's take on morality and being a good person. ... Happy Holidays!

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References:

Архив, Кино. “Pinocchio 1911.” YouTube, YouTube, 10 Oct. 2020,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvLwWHm3A_c.

Collodi, Carlo. “The Adventures of Pinocchio.” The Adventures of Pinocchio, by C. Collodi, 12 Jan. 2006, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/500/500-h/500-h.htm.

Perella, Nicolas J. “An Essay on Pinocchio.” Italica, vol. 63, no. 1, 1986, p. 1.,  https://www.jstor.org/stable/479125.

“The Adventures of Pinocchio.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 20 Nov. 2022, https://www.britannica.com/biography/C-Collodi.

Wunderlich, Richard. “The Tribulations of Pinocchio: How Social Change Can Wreck a Good Story.” Poetics Today, vol. 13, no. 1, 1992, pp. 197–219. Children's Literature, https://www.jstor.org/stable/1772798.