Cinema of Anxiety: A Psychoanalysis of Italian NeorealismUniversity of Texas Press, 1999 - 190 من الصفحات 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 the historical spectators they address. Rocchio builds his analysis around case studies of the films Rome: Open City, Bicycle Thieves, La Terra Trema, Bitter Rice, and Senso. Through the lens of psychoanalysis, he challenges the traditional understanding of Neorealism as a progressive cinema and instead reveals the anxieties it encodes: a society in political turmoil, an economic system in collapse, and a national cinema in ruins; while war, occupation, collaboration, and retaliation remain a part of everyday life. These case studies demonstrate how Lacanian psychoanalysis can play a key role in analyzing the structure of cinematic discourse and its strategies of containment. As one of the first books outside of feminist film theory to bring the ideas of Lacan to theories of cinema, this book offers innovative methods that reinvigorate film analysis. Clear and detailed insights into both Italian culture and the films under investigation will make this engaging reading for anyone interested in film and cultural studies. |
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... -292-77101-0 ( pbk . : alk . paper ) 1. Motion pictures - Italy - History . 2. Lacan , Jacques , 1901– I. Title . PN1993.5.188 R59 1999 791.43'0945 - dc21 99-6046 cm . in memoria di Vincenzo ed Antonia Rocchio e figli Domenico.
... Lacanian psychoanalysis starting in the mid I97o's . Herein lies the significance of the third aspect of Lindsey's discourse — its grounding in recognition . Early appropriations of Lacanian psychoanalysis in the mid 1970's , as ...
... Lacan , I have never been able to give a clear answer to the question , " Why Lacan- ian psychoanalysis ? " Now ... Lacanian framework is a fundamental commit- ment to a dialectical model of the individual that can take full account ...
... Lacan was one of the few who took up these pronouncements of Freud and ad- vanced them further , making clear that ... Lacanian model are such that overly simplistic demands to eliminate repression and revolu- tionary programs that ...
... Lacanian psychoanalysis and film looks at Neorealism pre- cisely because a period with such potential for social transformation was ef- fectively contained . What this study attempts to demonstrate is the manner in which ideological ...
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Revisiting Psychoanalysis and the Cinema | 9 |
Rome Open City ANXIETY IDEOLOGY AND CULTURAL CONTAINMENT | 29 |
Bicycle Thieves IDENTIFICATION FOCALIZATION AND RESTORATION | 53 |
La terra trema SUBVERTING AND STRUCTURING MEANING | 79 |
Bitter Rice THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED DIVA | 105 |
Senso DEGENERATE MELODRAMA? | 127 |
Psychoanalysis Cinematic Representation and Cultural Studies | 147 |
Notes | 159 |
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