Women, Desire, and Power in Italian Cinema
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Product details:
- Edition number 2010
- Publisher Springer Palgrave Macmillan
- Date of Publication 1 January 2010
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9780230622876
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 20x160x242 mm
- Weight 529 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book is the first comprehensive study of the representation of woman in Italian films of the twentieth century.
MoreLong description:
Women, Desire, and Power in Italian Cinema offers, for the first time in Italian Cinema criticism, a contextual study of the representation of women in twentieth-century Italian films. Marga Cottino-Jones argues that the ways women are depicted on screen reflects a subconscious "sexual conservatism" typical of an Italian society rooted within a patriarchal ideology. The book then follows the slow but constant process of social awareness in the Italian society through women in film, especially after the 1950s. Comprehensive in scope, this book analyzes the films of internationally known male and female directors, such as Antonioni, Fellini, Rossellini, Visconti, Bertolucci, Benigni, Cavani, Wertmuller, Comencini, and Archibugi. Special consideration is given to the actresses and actors that have become the icons of Italian femininity and masculinity, such as Sofia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, Silvana Mangano, Gian Carlo Giannini, Marcello Mastroianni, and Alberto Sordi.
"Women, Desire, and Power in Italian Cinema is wise and refreshingly readable scholarship that should become a standard reference work for both scholars and students of Italian cinema and culture." - Italian Quarterly
"Cottino-Jones is to be applauded for her huge undertaking: an examination of a hundred years of Italian cinema through the lens of the representation of women. This is an important and necessary study that brings into relief, among other topics, the issue of stardom in order to tackle the issue of female representation." - Giorgio Bertellini, author of Italy in Early American Cinema and editor of The Cinema of Italy
"Cottino-Jones's long awaited Women, Desire, and Power in Italian Cinema is a clear, compelling, and innovative study which offers an exciting paradigm for examining women's issues in Italian cinema from the silent and early sound period to the present." - Carlo Celli, Professor, Department of Romance and Classical Studies, Bowling Green State University
"Rather than a polemical or reductive study of the role of divismo in Italian film and society, this book explores in considerable detail the complex relationship of sexual politics in the social construction of what it means and has meant to be a man or a woman as reflected in and by Italian film. Whether the subject is the semiotics of silent movies, the Neorealism of Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Visconti, or Vittorio De Sica, or 'female agency' in modern women filmmakers such as Francesca Archibugi and Cristina Comencini, this book offers insightful and incisive analyses of Italian cinematic history." - Ray Fleming, The John Francis Dugan Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics, The Florida State University
Table of Contents:
Introduction Cabiria : Women in the Italian Colossals Woman
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-Spectacle in Love Story Films 'Mothers of Italy': the Legacy of Fascism in Italian Cinema Women in Neorealism A Woman's Search for Change and Meaningful Relationships in the Films of the Fifties Women and Men as Victims of Violence and Alienation in the Films of the Sixties The Sexual Power Game and its Impact on Women and Men in the Films of the Seventies Decentering the Masculine and Spotlighting the Feminine in Films of the Eighties 'Female Agency' in the Films of the Nineties Concluding Remarks
