Off Screen: Women and Film in Italy: Seminar on Italian and American directions (Routledge Library Editions: Cinema)

by Giuliana Bruno (Editor), Maria Nadotti (Editor), Maria Nadotti (Editor), Giuliana Bruno (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2013

  $163.46

  This feminist anthology from Italy offers an enriching perspective on cinema studies. Focusing on women's engagement with political theory and film-making, the book never loses sight of the female experience of cinema. It examines how women have chosen to represent themselves and how they have been represented, and how they deal with the cinematic apparatus, as subjects of production, objects of representation, and spectators. A variety of approaches are offered, ranging from psychoanalysis and semiology to history. With an exhaustive filmography, this anthology of chapters by eminent theorists demonstrates the central importance of recent developments in Italy for the whole spectrum of film and feminist studies.