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Italian Women Filmmakers and the Gendered ScreenWomen in the Deserted City

Italian Women Filmmakers and the Gendered Screen: Women in the Deserted City [During the last two decades in Italy, a new generation of women filmmakers has established its own space in the traditionally male-dominated film industry. This burgeoning group represents and positions female subjectivity in new and complex ways, specifically in urban contexts, which act not merely as background for filmed events but also as “objects of exploration, investigation and interpretation, settings for voyages of discovery.”2 Filmmakers such as Marina Spada, Francesca Comencini, Antonietta De Lillo, Roberta Torre, Nina Di Majo, Wilma Labate, Paola Randi, and Alice Rohrwacher have taken Italian cities like Milan, Rome, Naples, and Reggio Calabria, which are already part of the global cinematic imagination, and transformed them into subjects that serve to generate the narration of their films.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Italian Women Filmmakers and the Gendered ScreenWomen in the Deserted City

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series
Editors: Cantini, Maristella
Di Bianco, Laura
Italian Women Filmmakers and the Gendered Screen — Nov 2, 2015
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2013
ISBN
978-1-349-46352-7
Pages
121 –147
DOI
10.1057/9781137336514_8
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Abstract

[During the last two decades in Italy, a new generation of women filmmakers has established its own space in the traditionally male-dominated film industry. This burgeoning group represents and positions female subjectivity in new and complex ways, specifically in urban contexts, which act not merely as background for filmed events but also as “objects of exploration, investigation and interpretation, settings for voyages of discovery.”2 Filmmakers such as Marina Spada, Francesca Comencini, Antonietta De Lillo, Roberta Torre, Nina Di Majo, Wilma Labate, Paola Randi, and Alice Rohrwacher have taken Italian cities like Milan, Rome, Naples, and Reggio Calabria, which are already part of the global cinematic imagination, and transformed them into subjects that serve to generate the narration of their films.]

Published: Nov 2, 2015

Keywords: Urban Landscape; Urban Space; Female Character; Urban Context; Film Industry

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