Off Screen: Women and Film in Italy: Seminar on Italian and American directions

by Giuliana Bruno (Editor), Maria Nadotti (Editor)

Overview

This feminist anthology from Italy offers an enriching perspective on cinema studies. Focusing on women’s engagement with political theory and film-making, the book never loses sight of the female experience of cinema. It examines how women have chosen to represent themselves and how they have been represented, and how they deal with the cinematic apparatus, as subjects of production, objects of representation, and spectators. A variety of approaches are offered, ranging from psychoanalysis and semiology to history. With an exhaustive filmography, this anthology of chapters by eminent theorists demonstrates the central importance of recent developments in Italy for the whole spectrum of film and feminist studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138994584
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/28/2016
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Bruno, Giuliana; Nadotti, Maria

Table of Contents

Foreword Laura Mulvey  1. Off Screen: An Introduction  Part 1: The ‘150 Hours’  2. Editors’ Introduction  3. Women’s Cinema: A Look at Female Identity  4. Conditions of Illusion  5. Ecstasy, Coldness, and the Sadness which is Freedom  6. Introduction to the Script of the Film  7. Script of the Film  8. On the Margins of Feminist Discourse: The Experience of the ‘150 Hours Courses’  Part 2: Criticism: Theory/Practice  9. Female Identity and Italian Cinema of the 1950s  10. The Accessibility of the Text: An Analysis of The Lady from Shanghai  11. Language and the Female Subject  Part 3: Film Production  12. An Affectionate and Irreverent Account of Eighty Years of Women’s Cinema in Italy  13. Filmography: Women in Film in Italy