Overview
Maggie Günsberg 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, deconstructive), leads to the analysis of genre-specific representations of femininity and masculinity as constructed by the formal properties of film.
- | Author: M. Günsberg
- | Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- | Publication Date: Nov 23, 2004
- | Number of Pages: 243 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0333751159
- | ISBN-13: 9780333751152
