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Women, Desire, and Power in Italian Cinema

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230105485

ISBN: 978-1-349-38445-7

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 13, 2015

1 - 10 of 11 Chapters

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Introduction

Cottino-Jones, Marga

Pages: 1 –10

[The above quotation is from Monica Vitti,1 a well-known “diva” of Italian cinema whose acting and directorial expertise I greatly admire, and it succinctly provides a good explanation of the roles that women are supposed to play in Italian cinema, thus preparing the readers for the main topic of...
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Cabiria

Cottino-Jones, Marga

Pages: 11 –18

[Italy is a relatively young nation, as it only achieved unification in 1870. The process of unifying its several regions was far from smooth. It was indeed difficult to find common ground for planning a parliamentary government that would be acceptable to all regions and for formulating a set of...
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Woman-as-Spectacle in Love-Story Films

Cottino-Jones, Marga

Pages: 19 –35

[Before and during the first years of World War I (1914–1918), a spirit of intolerance toward the scientific and bourgeois interests of the nineteenth-century society was being spread by a new cultural movement called Decadentismo, which flourished in those times side by side with the pictorial...
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“Mothers of Italy”

Cottino-Jones, Marga

Pages: 37 –51

[By the end of the 1920s, Italy had become a totalitarian state under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini and his fascist regime. In fascist Italy, individuals could survive only if they unquestioningly accepted the regime’s totalitarian dictates and, if they equally unquestioningly played the...
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Women in Neorealist Cinema

Cottino-Jones, Marga

Pages: 53 –74

[The neorealist film movement rushed into Italy on the heels of the departing Nazi troops. The sense of relief coming from the realization that Mussolini, the fascists, and the Nazis had been defeated was matched only by the conviction that the story of the widespread suffering of the Italians...
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A Woman’s Search for Change and Meaningful Relationships in the Films of the 1950s

Cottino-Jones, Marga

Pages: 75 –104

[Because of the heavy losses suffered during World War II, Italy in the 1950s was in desperate need of economic aid, and the United States, at the height of the Cold War, used economic assistance through their Marshall Plan to persuade the Italian Christian Democratic Party to reduce Communist...
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Women and Men as Victims of Violence and Alienation in the Films of the 1960s

Cottino-Jones, Marga

Pages: 105 –140

[As mentioned in the previous chapter, toward the end of the 1950s, some important social changes influenced European political life as well as the Italian economy. The Cold War began to ease, and in 1956, the European Common Marketwas established and became instrumental in stimulating Italy’s...
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The Sexual Power Game and Its Impact on Women and Men in the Films of the 1970s

Cottino-Jones, Marga

Pages: 141 –186

[The fall of 1968 was the dramatic beginning of a decade of serious social unrest all throughout Italy. It started with the workers strikes, which were accompanied by students demonstrations in sympathy with the workers. Besides economic reasons, other causes were at the core of those...
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Decentering the Masculine and Spotlighting the Feminine in the Films of the 1980s

Cottino-Jones, Marga

Pages: 187 –210

[For the first time in Italian political history, the Left, and more specifically the Socialist Party, came to power in Italy in 1983 with Bettino Craxi as Prime Minister.]
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Female Agency in the Films of the 1990s

Cottino-Jones, Marga

Pages: 211 –224

[Chapter 8 has provided the essential historical information on Italy in the 1990s, so here we are addressing exclusively the Italian cinema of that time. In the 1990s, Italian male and female directors presented several films that attempt an innovative type of representation of women and of...

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