Regia e romanzo. Una questione storiografica alla prova dei fatti
This essay discusses the historiographic assumption put forward by Jean-Pierre Sarrazac in a 2005 study, which considers the appearance of the modern director as ensuing from a common novel and theater culture. Starting from the theoretical- methodological approach proposed by the French scholar, we aim at assessing its developments outside of the case study in hand, by measuring its procedural scope and its evolution over time.