Women, desire, and power in Italian cinema /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Italian and Italian American studies (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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Table of Contents:
- Cabiria: women in the Italian colossals
- Women-as-spectacle in love-story films: the dramma passionale versus the melodrama genre and the phenomenon of divismo
- "Mothers of Italy": the legacy of fascism in Italian cinema
- Women in neorealist cinema
- A woman's search for change and meaningful relationships in the films of the 1950s
- Women and men as victims of violence and alienation int he films of the 1960s
- The sexual power game and its impact on women and men in the films of the 1970s
- Decentering the masculine and spotlighting the feminine in films of the 1980s
- Female agency in the films of the 1990s.