Italian Cinema: Gender and Genre

Günsberg, M.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2004-11-23

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333751152

DOI: 10.1057/9780230510463

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 243