Italian Cinema: Gender and Genre

by Maggie Günsberg

Maggie G nsberg examines popular genre cinema in Italy during the 1950s and 1960s, focussing on melodrama, commedia all'italiana, peplum, horror and the spaghetti western. These genres are explored from a gender standpoint which takes into account the historical and socio-economic context of cinematic production and consumption. An interdisciplinary feminist approach informed by current film theory and other perspectives (psychoanalytic, materialist,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333751159
• ISBN13: 9780333751152
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.6" x 8.8"