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Italian Cinema

Gender and Genre

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  1. Maggie Günsberg

    1. University of Manchester, UK

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Maggie Günsberg
    Pages 1-18

  3. Domestic Bliss: Desire and the Family in Melodrama

    • Maggie Günsberg
    Pages 19-59

  4. Commodifying Passions: Gender and Consumerism in Commedia all’italiana

    • Maggie Günsberg
    Pages 60-96

  5. Heroic Bodies: The Cult of Masculinity in the Peplum

    • Maggie Günsberg
    Pages 97-132

  6. Looking at Medusa: Investigating Femininity in the Horror Film

    • Maggie Günsberg
    Pages 133-172

  7. The Man With No Name: Masculinity as Style in the Spaghetti Western

    • Maggie Günsberg
    Pages 173-214

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 215-233
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About this book

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.

Reviews

"Maggie Günsberg's book is an excellent and most welcome analysis of genre cinema in Italy, a form that has historically tended to be overlooked by Anglo-American criticism ... As the first book written in English to bring together an extended analysis of gender and genre in Italian cinema, it will be a vital tool for researchers and students alike, providing a new slant, rather than simply an introductory overview, to Italian cinema." - Clodagh Brook, Scope

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Manchester, UK

    Maggie Günsberg

About the author

MAGGIE GÜNSBERG is Professor of Italian in the Department of Italian Studies at Manchester University, UK. Her research interests include women's writing, Italian cinema and Italian drama. She has published several books in these areas including Playing with Gender: The Comedies of Goldoni; The Epic Rhetoric of Tasso: Theory and Practice; Gender and the Italian Stage: From the Renaissance to the Present and Patriarchal Representations: Gender and Discourse in Pirandello's Theatre.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Italian Cinema

  • Book Subtitle: Gender and Genre

  • Authors: Maggie Günsberg

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230510463

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-75115-2Published: 23 November 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-41229-7Published: 01 January 2005

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-51046-3Published: 23 November 2004

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 243

  • Topics: Film History, Gender Studies, Screen Studies

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