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Masculinity and Italian Cinema: Sexual Politics, Social Conflict and Male Crisis in the 1970s - Couverture souple

Rigoletto, Sergio

 
9781399569477: Masculinity and Italian Cinema: Sexual Politics, Social Conflict and Male Crisis in the 1970s
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1399569473 ISBN 13 : 9781399569477
Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2026

Synopsis

A study of how Italian films re-envisage male identity in response to sexual liberation

How did Italian cinema of the 1970s re-envision masculinity in response to sexual liberation? What role did broader socio-political concerns of the time play in this re-definition? To what extent did this re-envisioning of masculinity intersect with concurrent debates about the function of cinema as a political medium and a mass cultural phenomenon?

Masculinity and Italian Cinema takes the 1970s as an especially instructive period for rethinking the traditional trope of an inadequate male in crisis within Italian cinema. It explores how masculinity functioned in several films of the 1970s as a charged allegory for the many socio-political lacerations of the Italian nation and as a site of conflict and radical interrogation of ideas about gender and sexuality. Sergio Rigoletto re-examines a number of key films, including Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist, Federico Fellini’s City of Women, Ettore Scola’s A Special Day, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Teorema and Lina Wertmüller’s The Seduction of Mimì, in the light of gender and queer theory and considers the challenges that these films pose to received ideas about gender and sexuality of the time, and to some of the aesthetic and narrative conventions which have traditionally regulated the representation of men in film.

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À propos de l'auteur

Sergio Rigoletto is Assistant Professor of Italian and Cinema Studies at the University of Oregon, USA. He has published on film comedy, contemporary queer cinema and Italian television. He is co-editor (with Louis Bayman) of Popular Italian Cinema.

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Éditeur
Edinburgh University Press
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1399569473
ISBN 13 
9781399569477
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
176
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