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Male Anxiety and Psychopathology in Film

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137515841

ISBN: 978-1-349-56553-5

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Dec 22, 2015

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Introduction

Bini, Andrea

Pages: 1 –9

[In the early 1950s, a sugarcoated comedy genre called neorealismo rosa, or “pink neorealism,” became the most successful genre in Italy until the end of the decade. As its name suggests, pink neorealism featured neorealist portraits of postwar destitution as background for traditional romance...
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The Narrative Pattern of Italian Film Comedy

Bini, Andrea

Pages: 11 –39

[Except for comedy, Italian popular cinema in the postwar era was mainly characterized by ephemeral genres and subgenres that would follow the model of a successful national or foreign movie and then exploit it to the point of complete saturation. A good example is the spaghetti Western, which...
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Postwar Comedy

Bini, Andrea

Pages: 41 –71

[The first chapter sketched out a theoretical and historical outline of classical comedy narrative, which dominated Italian film comedy from the time of its inception in the sound era under Fascism. To complete the negative, or pars destruens, of my study, I will now track down the different...
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The Birth of Comedy Italian Style

Bini, Andrea

Pages: 73 –106

[In the previous chapters, I showed that the film comedies dominating the Italian box office in the postwar era up to the late 1950s were quite traditional. Pink neorealism epitomized this as it reintroduced the classical plot based on romance and generational clash, whereas the conflict between...
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Humor Italian Style

Bini, Andrea

Pages: 107 –144

[In this work, I propose a reading of comedy Italian style as a genre characterized by the rejection of the themes and elements of traditional comedy narrative that dominated the Italian box office until the late 1950s. In opposition to the working-class ethic of neorealist comedy, comedy Italian...
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The Characters of Comedy Italian Style

Bini, Andrea

Pages: 145 –182

[So far I have demonstrated how comedies to be defined all’italiana stand out from other, more traditional forms of Italian film comedy. These movies expose the consequences of the traumatic decline of the father figure in postwar Italy, replaced by the (seemingly) egalitarian role of the...
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The Comedy Is Over

Bini, Andrea

Pages: 183 –206

[In the previous chapters, I chose to follow a hybrid approach to my study, not only thematic but also chronological. In the first chapter, I investigated comedy and film comedy in general and discussed early Italian film comedy from the Fascist years. In the second, I explored postwar comedy,...

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