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Masculinity and Italian Cinema: Sexual Politics, Social Conflict and Male Crisis in the 1970s
Sergio Rigoletto
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Hardcover. Offers a study of how Italian films re-envisage male identity in response to sexual liberation. This book examines how this preoccupation with male identity becomes especially acute in the 1970s when a set of more diverse and inclusive images of men emerge in response to the rise of feminism and gay liberation. Num Pages: 176 pages, 40 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJPL; APF; JFSJ2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 164 x 15. Weight in Grams: 404.
This is a study of how Italian films re-envisage male identity in response to sexual liberation. Italian cinema has traditionally used the trope of an inadequate man in crisis to reflect on the country's many social and political upheavals. Masculinity and Italian Cinema examines how this preoccupation with male identity becomes especially acute in the 1970s when a set of more diverse and inclusive images of men emerge in response to the rise of feminism and gay liberation. Through an analysis of the way Italian films explore anxieties about male sexuality and femininity, the book shows how such anxieties also ... Read more
This is a study of how Italian films re-envisage male identity in response to sexual liberation. Italian cinema has traditionally used the trope of an inadequate man in crisis to reflect on the country's many social and political upheavals. Masculinity and Italian Cinema examines how this preoccupation with male identity becomes especially acute in the 1970s when a set of more diverse and inclusive images of men emerge in response to the rise of feminism and gay liberation. Through an analysis of the way Italian films explore anxieties about male sexuality and femininity, the book shows how such anxieties also ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748654543
SKU
V9780748654543
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About Sergio Rigoletto
Sergio Rigoletto is Assistant Professor of Italian and Cinema Studies at the University of Oregon.
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