Italian Cinema : Gender and Genre /

Maggie Günsberg examines popular genre cinema in Italy during the 1950s and 1960s, focussing on melodrama, commedia all'italiana , peplum, horror and the spaghetti western. These genres are explored from a gender standpoint which takes into account the historical and socio-economic context of c...

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Main Author:	Günsberg, Maggie (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Subjects:	Cultural and Media Studies. Film History. Film and Television Studies. Gender Studies. Culture > Study and teaching. Gender expression. Gender identity. Motion pictures and television. Motion pictures > History. Sex (Psychology) Sociology. Electronic books.
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Summary:	Maggie Günsberg examines popular genre cinema in Italy during the 1950s and 1960s, focussing on melodrama, commedia all'italiana , peplum, horror and the spaghetti western. These genres are explored from a gender standpoint which takes into account the historical and socio-economic context of cinematic production and consumption. An interdisciplinary feminist approach informed by current film theory and other perspectives (psychoanalytic, materialist, deconstructive), leads to the analysis of genre-specific representations of femininity and masculinity as constructed by the formal properties of film.
Item Description:	Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (IX, 233 pages)
ISBN:	9780230510463
DOI:	10.1057/9780230510463