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.