Women, Desire, and Power in Italian Cinema
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Women, Desire, and Power in Italian Cinema

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Women, Desire, and Power in Italian Cinema

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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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Cabiria: Women in the Italian Colossals
  10. 2 Woman-as-Spectacle in Love-Story Films: The Dramma Passionale versus the Melodrama Genre and the Phenomenon of Divismo
  11. 3 "Mothers of Italy": The Legacy of Fascism in Italian Cinema
  12. 4 Women in Neorealist Cinema
  13. 5 A Woman's Search for Change and Meaningful Relationships in the Films of the 1950s
  14. 6 Women and Men as Victims of Violence and Alienation in the Films of the 1960s
  15. 7 The Sexual Power Game and Its Impact on Women and Men in the Films of the 1970s
  16. 8 Decentering the Masculine and Spotlighting the Feminine in the Films of the 1980s
  17. 9 Female Agency in the Films of the 1990s
  18. Conclusion
  19. Notes
  20. Selected Bibliography
  21. Index of Films
  22. Index of Names and Topics