Streetwalking on a Ruined Map : : Cultural Theory and the City Films of Elvira Notari /

Streetwalking on a Ruined Map : : Cultural Theory and the City Films of Elvira Notari / / Giuliana Bruno.

Emphasizing the importance of cultural theory for film history, Giuliana Bruno enriches our understanding of early Italian film as she guides us on a series of "inferential walks" through Italian culture in the first decades of this century. This innovative approach---the interweaving of e...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Bruno, Giuliana,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (436 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Mapping Out Discourse: An Introduction
  • PART I. SUPPRESSED KNOWLEDGE OF ELVIRA CODA NOTARI AND NEAPOLITAN FILM: A HISTORICAL PANORAMA
  • 1. Questions of History and Film in Italian Culture
  • 2. Film Journals and Film Historiography
  • PART II. FILM IN THE CITYSCAPE: A TOPOANALYSIS OF SPECTATORSHIP
  • 3. Streetwalking around Plato's Cave, or The Unconscious Is Housed
  • 4. Spectatorial Embodiments: Anatomies of the Visible and the Female Bodyscape
  • PART III. MANUFACTURING FILM CULTURE
  • 5. Dora Film: An Urban Production House
  • 6. Women at Work: Manufacturing Movies
  • 7. Dora Film of America: Women and Immigrants in the American Dream
  • 8. Censorship: A Cuton the Wings of Desire
  • PART IV. THE METROPOLITAN TEXTURE
  • 9. Fragments o f an Analyst's Discourse: Lacunae
  • 10. The Architecture of Public Melodrama: A Corporeality of the Street
  • 11. Between the Feast and the Law: The Carnivalization of Narration
  • 12. City Views: Filmic Cityscape, Artistic Perspective, and Touristic Travel
  • PART V. FEMALE GEOGRAPHIES
  • 13. Anatomy of an Analysis: The Authorial Noir
  • 14. Popular Cinema and Women's Literature: The Transito of Female Discourse
  • 15. Medical Figures: Hysteria and the Anatomy Lesson
  • 16. Topographies of Dark Female Pleasures
  • 17. Written on the Body: Eroticism, Death, and Hagiography
  • Notes
  • Filmography
  • List of Illustrations
  • Index

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