Italian Women Filmmakers and the Gendered Screen

2013. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-33650-7
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 4925 g

Reihe: Italian and Italian American Studies

Featuring essays by top scholars and interviews with acclaimed directors, this book examines Italian women's authorship in film and their visions of reality. The contributors use feminist film criticism in the analysis of their works and give direct voices to the artists who are constantly excluded by the conventional Italian film criticism.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cantini, Maristella

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword; Patrizia Carrano Preface; Dacia Maraini Introduction; Maristella Cantini PART I 1. Napoli Terra d'Amore.The Eye on the Screen of Elvira Notari; Chiara Ricci 2. Grotesque Bodies, Fragmented Selves: (Anti)Feminist Representations of Womanhood in Lina Wertmüller's Love and Anarchy; Claudia Consolati 3. Don't Bring a Gun to a Fist Fight: Deconstructing Hegemonic Masculinity through Guns in Lina Wertmüller's Seven Beauties; Lidia Hwa Soon Anchisi Hopkins and Luke Cuculis 4. Adventurous Identities: Cavani's Thematic Imaginary; Gaetana Marrone 5. Healing the Daughter's Body in Francesca Archibugi's Il Grande Cocomero; Daniela De Pau 6. A Space of One's Own: Motherhood Revisited in Francesca Comencini's Lo Spazio Bianco; Claudia Karagoz 7. Women in the Deserted City. Urban Space in Marina Spada's Cinema; Laura Di Bianco 8. Envisioning Our Mothers' Face. Reading Alina Marazzi's For One More Hour with You and We Want Roses, Too; Cristina Gamberi 9. Alina Marazzi's Women: A Director in Search of Herself through a Female Genealogy.; Fabiana Cecchini 10. Angela/o and the Gender Disruption of Masculine Society in Purple Sea; Anita Virga 11. Ilaria Borrelli: Cinema and Postfeminism; Maristella Cantini PART II 1. Interview with Alina Marazzi; Cristina Gamberi 2. Interview with Marina Spada; Laura Di Bianco 3. Interview with Alice Rohrwacher; Laura di Bianco 4. Interview with Paola Randi; Laura di Bianco 5. Interview with Costanza Quatriglio; Giovanna Summerfield

Über Autor(innen)

Lidia Hwa Soon Anchisi Hopkins, Gettysburg College, USA
Patrizia Carrano, Writer, Italy
Fabiana Cecchini, Texas A&M University, USA
Claudia Consolati, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Luke Cuculis, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Daniela De Pau, Drexel University, USA
Laura Di Bianco, CUNY Graduate Center, USA
Claudia Karagoz, Saint Louis University, USA
Cristina Gamberi, University of Hull, UK
Vera Golini, St. Jerome's University, Canada
Dacia Maraini, Writer, Italy
Gaetana Marrone, Princeton University, USA
Robin Pickering-Iazzi, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Chiara Ricci, Writer and Independent Scholar, Italy
Giovanna Summerfield, Auburn University, USA
Anita Virga, University of Connecticut, USA