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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... discourse and told me that she was saying , " Jason fall down , got boo - boo on head , go to hospital . " Though at the time I thought it remarkable that she clearly remembered me from the cabin , I did not think it a particularly ...
... discourses ... [ seek ] to appropriate it and imbue it with their own meanings . " Language , in short ... [ is ] a field of ideological contention , not a monolithic system ; indeed , signs ... [ are ] the very material medium of ...
... discourse — its grounding in recognition . Early appropriations of Lacanian psychoanalysis in the mid 1970's , as discussed more fully in the following chapters , were ex- tremely important for bringing into cinema studies the concept ...
... discourses of the 1990's , cultural commentators are quick to denigrate the 1960's in just such a manner : focusing in on its excesses and characterizing its revolutionary movements as naive ( ignoring , as they do , the incredibly ...
... discourse . In postwar Italy patriarchal capital- ism was made to seem " inevitable , " even by those discourses which hoped for a more enlightened transformation of Italian society . In the end , not even the legacy of the Resistance ...
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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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