Italian Cinema: Gender and Genre

Italian Cinema: Gender and Genre
ISBN-10
0230510469
ISBN-13
9780230510463
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
243
Language
English
Published
2004-11-23
Publisher
Springer
Author
M. Günsberg

Description

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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