The Gaze and the Labyrinth : : The Cinema of Liliana Cavani /

The Gaze and the Labyrinth : : The Cinema of Liliana Cavani / / Gaetana Marrone.

In this, the first comprehensive book on Liliana Cavani, Gaetana Marrone redraws the map of postwar Italian cinema to make room for this extraordinary filmmaker, whose representations of transgressive eroticism, spiritual questing, and psychological extremes test the limits of the medium, pushing it...

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Marrone, Gaetana,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©2000
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; 86 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Photographic Reproductions
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE. THE LABYRINTH: COGNITION AND TRAGIC IMAGINATION
  • 1 Francesco di Assist: The Medieval Chronicle and the Establishing of Physical Reality
  • 2. Realism against Illusion: The Ceremonial Divestiture of Power in Galileo
  • 3. Metaphors of Revolt: The Dialogic Silence in I cannibali
  • PART TWO. THE TRANSGRESSIVE GAZE: STYLE AS TENSION
  • 4. Toward a Negative Mythopoeia: Spectacle, Memory, and Representation in The Night Porte
  • 5. Staging the Gaze: Beyond Good and Evil
  • 6. Theatricality and Reflexivity in The Berlin Affair
  • PART THREE. METAPHORS OF VISION
  • 7. The Architectonics of Form: Francesco and Milarepa
  • 8. The Essential Solitude: A Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Filmography
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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