Dalle Vacche The Body in the Mirror

Shapes of History in Italian Cinema
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6254-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 179, 326 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Dalle Vacche, Angela

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction The Body in the Mirror 3

Shapes of History 10

Ch. 1 Fascism Before World War I, After World War I, and After World War II 18

Unity, Continuity, and Kitsch 18

Continuity: From a Silent to a Fascist Screen 27

Kitsch and the Arts 29

From the Athlete to the Statue to the Phantom 41

Body Builders and Beauty Queens 52

Ch. 2 Fascism After May 1968 57

Operatic Macrohistory in Crisis 57

Representation, Spectacle, Performance 63

Ideology, Consent, Subjectivity 68

The Statue and the Dancer 78

Ch. 3 The Risorgimento Before World War II 93

Unity, Continuity, and Nationalism 93

Unity, Continuity, and Sources 99

Ch. 4 The Risorgimento After World War II 121

Unity and Continuity in the Risorgimento 121

Risorgimento as Melodrama 134

The Body Politic and the Body Erotic: The Battle of the Sexes and the Oedipal Plot 147

Ch. 5 The Risorgimento After May 1968 156

Unity, Continuity, and Utopia 156

The Tavianis' Redoing of Senso in Allonsanfan 162

History as Discontinuity and the Feminine as Utopia 175

Ch. 6 The Resistance After World War II and After May 1968 180

The Eucharistic Body of Neorealism 180

Unity and Continuity in the Resistance 193

Disunity in History 203

Discontinuity in History 204

Biology, History, and Utopia 205

From Historical Discontinuity to Biological Continuity 208

Operatic Macrohistory, Comedic Microhistory 213

Ch. 7 Antifascism After May 1968 219

Unity and Continuity in Antifascism 219

Antifascism and Comedic Microhistory at a Standstill 222

The Statue and the Dancer, Father and Son, Body as Monument, and Body as Document 233

The Battle of the Sexes 237

Mother or Mistress 243

Conclusion Nouvelle Histoire, Italian Style 251

From the Commedia dell'Arte to Late Neorealism 252

French Insights on Postwar and Recent Italian Cinema 259

Gestures and History in Neorealism, Tradition of Quality, and Nouvelle Vague 264

Nouvelle Histoire, Italian Style 276

Bibliography 285

Index 301