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Cinema, gender, and everyday space : comedy, Italian style / Natalie Fullwood.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.C55 F86 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fullwood, Natalie, author.
- Series:
- Screening spaces
- Screening Spaces
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comedy films--Italy--History and criticism.
- Comedy films.
- Motion pictures.
- History.
- Italy.
- Motion pictures--Italy--History--20th century.
- Sex role in motion pictures.
- Space in motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 260 pages ; 23cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Summary:
- Commedia all'italiana, or Comedy, Italian style, became popular at a time of great social change, thus it is particularly attentive to the changing spaces of everyday life and the changing social roles performed within those spaces. This book, using over 150 comedies produced in Italy from 1958 to 1970, examines Comedy, Italian style's representation of gender in the everyday spaces of beaches and nightclubs, offices, cars, and kitchens, through the exploration of key spatial motifs. Fullwood sets out a model For cinema's construction of gendered models of space and spatial models of gender, which she uses to look at a genre that was intimately bound up with processes of social change. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part I Contexts
- Chapter 1 Cinema, Space, Gender 15
- Chapter 2 Comedy, Italian Style
- Part II Spaces
- Chapter 3 Bodies, Bikinis, and Bras: Beaches and Nightclubs in Comedy, Italian Style 65
- Chapter 4 Masculinity at Work: Offices in Comedy, Italian Style 95
- Chapter 5 Driving Passions: Cars in Comedy, Italian Style 129
- Chapter 6 Recipe for Change: Kitchens in Comedy, Italian Style 163.
- Notes:
- Introduction: Gender, Space, and Comedy, Italian Style -- Contexts. Cinema, Space, Gender -- Comedy, Italian Style -- Spaces. Bodies, Bikinis and Bras: Beaches and Nightclubs in Comedy, Italian Style -- Masculinity at Work: Offices in Comedy, Italian Style -- Driving Passions: Cars in Comedy, Italian Style -- Recipe for Change: Kitchens in Comedy, Italian Style -- Conclusion.
- Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137403568
- 113740356X
- OCLC:
- 891125823
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