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Italian cinema has traditionally used the trope of an inadequate man in crisis to reflect on the country's many social and political upheavals. Masculinity and Italian Cinema examines how this preoccupation with male identity becomes especially acute in the 1970s when a set of more diverse and inclusive images of men emerge in response to the rise of feminism and gay liberation. Through an analysis of the way Italian films explore anxieties about male sexuality and femininity, the book shows how such anxieties also intersect with particular preoccupations about national identity and political engagement. This is an essential study-tool to understand the multiple constructions of masculinity in Italian cinema, helping students and researchers to understand the work of some of Italy's most provocative filmmakers.
Key Features* Re-examines key Italian films, including Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist, Ettore Scola's A Special Day, Pier Paolo Pasolini's Theorem and Lina Wertmüller's The Seduction of Mimì, in the light of gender and queer theory.* Covers the major thematic concerns, genres and stylistic traits of 1970s Italian political cinema* Analyses the broader cultural context of 1970s Italy, including sections on Italian feminism, Gay liberation and the post-'68 social movements.
Contents
Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Introduction; 1. Male Crisis: between Apocalypse and Nostalgia; Envisaging the End: Bye Bye Monkey and The Last Woman; Nostalgic Retrievals, Regression and Malizia; Fearing Loss, Performing Power Reversal: City of Women; 2. Contesting National Memory: Male Dilemmas and Oedipal Scenarios; Questioning the Father as a Point of Origin: The Spider's Stratagem; The Oedipal Journey and the Return of the Repressed in The Conformist; 3. Undoing Genre, Undoing Masculinity; Gendered Laughter in The Seduction of Mimì; Gay Comedy and the Reflecting Mirror of Masculinity: La patata bollente; Film Romance and the Odd Couple in A Special Day; 4. Pier Paolo Pasolini's Erotic Imagery and the Significance of the Male Body; Exhibiting the Gaze, Exhibiting the Body in Teorema; The Crotch and the Queer Phallus in The Trilogy of Life; 6. Male Subjectivity and the Legacy of 1968: Nanni Moretti's Ecce Bombo; Irony, the Male 'I' and Autobiography; The Lack of a Script; Men and Change; Notes
