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Women, desire, and power in Italian cinema
Cottino-Jones, Marga 
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN10: 0230105483 ISBN13: 9780230105485 DDC: 808.823 LCC: PN1993.5

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Women, Desire, and Power in Italian Cinema offers, for the first time in Italian Cinema criticism, a contextual study of the representation of women in twentieth-century Italian films. Marga Cottino-Jones argues that the ways women are depicted on screen reflects a subconscious "sexual conservatism" typical of an Italian society rooted within a patriarchal ideology. The book then follows the slow but constant process of social awareness in the Italian society through women in film, especially after the 1950s. Comprehensive in scope, this book analyzes the films of internationally known male and female directors, such as Antonioni, Fellini, Rossellini, Visconti, Bertolucci, Benigni, Cavani, Wertmuller, Comencini, and Archibugi. Special consideration is given to the actresses and actors that have become the icons of Italian femininity and masculinity, such as Sofia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, Silvana Mangano, Gian Carlo Giannini, Marcello Mastroianni, and Alberto Sordi.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-246) and indexes. 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. Electronic reproduction.Basingstoke, England :Palgrave Macmillan,2010.

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