Italian Women Filmmakers and the Gendered Screen [electronic resource] /
Cantini, Maristella.author.
Cantini, Maristella,editor.
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.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I; 1 Napoli Terra d'Amore: The Eye on the Screen of Elvira Notari; 2 Grotesque Bodies, Fragmented Selves: Lina Wertmüller's Women in Love and Anarchy (1973); 3 Don't Bring a Gun to a Fistfight: Deconstructing Hegemonic Masculinity through the Gun in Lina Wertmüller's Pasqualino Settebellezze; 4 Adventurous Identities: Cavani's Thematic Imaginary; 5 Healing the Daughter's Body in Francesca Archibugi's Il Grande Cocomero
6 Motherhood Revisited in Francesca Comencini's Lo Spazio Bianco7 Women in the Deserted City: Urban Space in Marina Spada's Cinema; 8 Envisioning Our Mother's Face: Reading Alina Marazzi's Un'ora sola ti vorrei and Vogliamo anche le rose; 9 Alina Marazzi's Women: A Director in Search of Herself through a Female Genealogy; 10 Angela/o and the Gender Disruption of Masculine Society in Purple Sea; 11 Ilaria Borrelli: Cinema and Postfeminism; Part II; 12 Skype Interview with Alina Marazzi (June 2012); 13 Interview with Marina Spada (Milan, June 2012)
14 Interview with Alice Rohrwacher (Rome, June 2012)15 Interview with Paola Randi (Rome, June 2012); 16 Interview with Costanza Quatriglio (July 2012); Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes index.
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.
Motion pictures—History.
Sociology.
Motion pictures and television.
Motion pictures—European influences.
Arts.
Film History.
Gender Studies.
Screen Studies.
European Cinema and TV.
Arts.