Masculinity and Italian Cinema : : Sexual Politics, Social Conflict and Male Crisis in the 1970s / / Sergio Rigoletto.

A study of how Italian films re-envisage male identity in response to sexual liberationHow did Italian cinema of the 1970s re-envision masculinity in response to sexual liberation? What role did broader socio-political concerns of the time play in this re-definition? To what extent did this re-envis...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2014
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (176 p.) :; 40 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Male Crisis: Between Apocalypse and Nostalgia
  • 3. Contesting National Memory: Male Dilemmas and Oedipal Scenarios
  • 4. Undoing Genre, Undoing Masculinity
  • 5. Pier Paolo Pasolini's Erotic Imagery and the Significance of the Male Body
  • 6. Male Subjectivity and the Legacy of 1968: Nanni Moretti's Ecce Bombo
  • Notes
  • Index