Italian cinema : gender and genre /
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| Author / Creator: | Günsberg, Maggie. |
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| Imprint: | Houndmills, Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. |
| Description: | ix, 243 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5585531 |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 243 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes filmography: p. 222-225. Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-233) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0333751159 |
