Male anxiety and psychopathology in film
Subtitle: comedy Italian style
By: by Andrea Bini
Series: Italian and Italian American studies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781137516886
Subjects: Motion pictures; Comedy films; History and criticism; Men in motion pictures; Psychological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the narrative pattern of Italian film comedy; title: Postwar comedy: neorealist comedy and pink neorealism; title: The birth of comedy Italian style: narrating the myth of the economic miracle; title: Humor Italian style: the masks of conformity; title: The characters of comedy Italian style; title: A psychopathology of the society of enjoyment; title: The comedy is over: the dissolution of a psychostic society.