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Antonio Pietrangeli, the director of women : feminism and film theory in postwar Italian cinema /
One of the founding fathers of neorealism in the postwar period in Italy, Antonio Pietrangeli went on to focus his lens upon the female subject. Eight of his ten full-length films feature female protagonists. This study seeks to better understand both his achievements and his failings as a feminist...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York, NY :
Anthem Press,
2020.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Vita
- Introduction: Antonio Pietrangeli, A Brief History
- The Director of Women but Never a Feminist
- Notes
- Chapter 1 Pietrangelian Film Theory: From Neorealism to Feminism
- Spazzatura Americana-American Trash and Hollywood Cinema
- Classical Cinema: Not a Female Spectator's Sport
- Critical/Psychoanalytical
- Dietrich's Asbestos Dress
- I'm Not a Psychologist, I Just Play One in the Movies
- Notes
- Chapter 2 Maid from the Margins: Il sole negli occhi
- Sun in Her Eyes?
- Femmi-Neorealismo
- Servile Italy: From Whore to Consumer
- The Riddle of the Servant
- Ragazza-Madre
- Notes
- Chapter 3 The Coming of Age of a Teenage Bride: Nata di marzo
- Producing the Couple, but Not the Happy Ending
- The Fifties Child Bride
- Francesca, Desperate Housewife
- How Do You Solve a Problem Like Francesca?
- Bride as Commodity: Francesca, Fetishism and Alienation
- Mis-Leading Lady
- Notes
- Chapter 4 Legally Bound: Political Realism and Prostitution in Adua e le compagne
- Keeping Adua and Her Friends Down
- Senator Merlin at the Venice Film Festival
- Burning the Licenses
- Scuttling the Ship
- Prostitution Is Not a Metaphor
- Notes
- Chapter 5 Fantasmi a Roma: Sur-Realism and the Time-Image
- Material Ghosts and Metacinema
- Ghosts and Deleuze's Crystal
- Time In Limine
- History Lessons
- The Specter of One-Dimensional Rome
- Notes
- Chapter 6 The Dora Problem: La parmigiana, Piatti, Pietrangeli and Freud
- The Spectator and the Reader: Dora and Pornography
- A Symptomatic Act
- Dora's Sorties
- Notes
- Chapter 7 Too Much Woman: Marriage, Power, and Excess in La visita
- Excessive Criticism and the Cinema of Excess
- Eros and Ananke
- The World's Oldest Profession: Marriage
- La Bella Culandrona
- The Female Voice (Over)
- Notes
- Chapter 8 Breaking Faith: Il magnifico cornuto, Envy and the Crisis of Vision
- Envy, Anxiety, Gender
- The Farce of Proof
- In(Videre)
- The Male Hysteria of Betrayal
- Vision and Knowledge
- Notes
- Chapter 9 Io la conoscevo bene ... Or did I? Antonio Pietrangeli, the Author and the Actress
- The Death of the Cinematic Auteur
- An Absurd Reasoning
- Embodying the (Male) Gaze
- Birthing the Spectator
- Notes
- Conclusion: Antonio Pietrangeli, Feminism and Film Theory
- The Need for New Theories, New Fathers
- Post-Neorealism, Pre-Feminism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index