Masculinity and Italian cinema
Subtitle: sexual politics, social conflict and male crisis in the 1970s
By: Sergio Rigoletto
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9780748654543
Subjects: Motion pictures; Geschlechterrolle; Social aspects; Italian Motion pictures; Film; Masculinity in motion pictures; Männlichkeit; Mann; History
Description: "Masculinity and Italian Cinema takes the 1970s as an especially instructive period for rethinking the traditional trope of an inadequate male in crisis within Italian cinema. It explores how masculinity functioned in several films of the 1970s as a charged allegory for the many socio-political lacerations of the Italian nation and as a site of conflict and radical interrogation of ideas about gender and sexuality."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-158) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Male crisis: between apocalypse and nostalgia; title: Contesting national memory: male dilemmas and Oedipal scenarios; title: Undoing genre, undoing masculinity; title: Pier Paolo Pasolini's erotic imagery and the significance of the male body; title: Male subjectivity and the legacy of 1968: Nanni Moretti's Ecce Bombo.