Dreamscapes in Italian Cinema

by Francesco Pascuzzi (Editor), Bryan Cracchiolo (Editor), Axel Andersson (Contribution by), Eleanor Andrews (Contribution by), Linda Belau (Contribution by)

Overview

This book explores the oneiric in Italian cinema from filmic representations and visualizations of dreams, nightmares, hallucinations, and dream-like and hypnotic states, to dreams as cinematic allegories and metaphors and the theoretical frameworks applied to the investigation of this relationship.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611477818
Publisher:	Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Publication date:	01/21/2015
Series:	The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
Pages:	206
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Francesco Pascuzzi is lecturer of scientific and technical writing at Rutgers University. Bryan Cracchiolo is lecturer in Italian and coordinator of Italian studies at SUNY New Paltz.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Francesco Pascuzzi, Bryan Cracchiolo 1. Dreamed Cinema, Cinematic Dreams: Dreamscape, Neurosis and Desire in Federico Fellini’s 8½ Avishek Parui 2. The Uncanny and Mannequins: The Dream-Like Qualities of Two Italian Gothic Films, Il mulino delle donne di pietra and Lisa e il diavolo Fernando Pagnoni, Amy M. Davis 3. Massimo Fagioli’s Influence and Psychoanalysis in Marco Bellocchio’s Il diavolo in corpo Alessandro De Stefanis 4. The Visionary Realism of Marco Bellocchio’s Buongiorno, note Francesco Rabissi 5. The Ironic Oneiric: Nanni Moretti and the Cinematic Challenges of the 1970s Axel Andersson 6. Life Is But a Dream: Reveries, Nightmares and Other Worlds in the Films of Nanni Moretti Eleanor Andrews 7. Sublimation, Myth and the Work of Dreams: Radical Nostalgia and Melancholic Attachment in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Edipo Re Linda Belau 8. The Cinedream in Pasolini and Cassavetes Anthony Cristiano 9. Gradivae and Nymphs: Walking Women in the Dreamscapes of Italian Cinema Maurizia Natali 10. Dreams, Nightmares, and Hallucinations in Francesca Comencini’s Cinema Letizia Bellocchio 11. The Nightmarish in Dario Argento’s Mother Trilogy: Spatial Oddities and Family Ties Sandra Waters List of Contributors Index