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. |
من داخل الكتاب
النتائج 1-5 من 65
... relationship between an individual signifier or sign and that which it represents : the signified . Rather , as Saus- sure demonstrated , the relationship is arbitrary . Thus , Christopher Norris summarizes this principle by arguing ...
... relationship to its referent , is a significant site for cultural studies , especially as it relates to analyzing cultures of inequity such as those structured upon capitalism . Systems of inequity continue to maintain and perpetuate ...
... relationship as it relates to the subject , especially as it relates to the concept of the unified subject . Jacques Lacan's rather difficult writings , if nothing else , sound a warning that the dialectic of recognition that grounds ...
... relationship to the individual . The key term here is dialectical . Lacan's theories transcend overly simplistic binary oppo- sitions like nature / nurture and individual / social , insisting that , in terms of the psyche , not only is ...
عذرًا، محتوى هذه الصفحة مقيَّد.
المحتوى
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 |
175 | |
181 | |