Cinema of Anxiety: A Psychoanalysis of Italian Neorealism

by Vincent F. Rocchio

Book Overview

The "new" realism of Italian cinema after World War II represented and in many ways attempted to contain the turmoil of a society struggling to rid itself of Fascism while fighting off the threat of radical egalitarianism at the same time. In this boldly revisionist book, Vincent F. Rocchio combines Lacanian psychoanalysis with narratology and Marxist critical theory to examine the previously neglected relationship between Neorealist films and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292771010
• ISBN13: 9780292771017
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"