Awards

• Runner-up for British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Awards: Best First Monograph Award 2023

Overview

Italian cinema experienced its peak of domestic and international popularity in the years between the 'economic miracle' of the late 1950s and the social and political turmoil of the 1970s. But how did the growing development of the feminist movement in this period impact on Italian film culture? And what role did that film culture play in women's lives? This book explores the multiple intersections between feminism and Italian cinema from the perspective of women's everyday relationship with the medium. Drawing from a feminist approach to Gramscian cultural theory, the book builds an archival counter-history of Italian cinema in which women took part as movie-goers, activists and practitioners, by means of a collective-historical agency that challenged cinema's patriarchal structures and strategies of invisibilisation.

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Author:   Dalila Missero (Post-doctoral research fellow in Film Studies, Oxford Brookes University)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.458kg
ISBN:  

9781474463249

ISBN 10:   147446324
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   29 December 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: Cultures of Film Consumption: Affective Spectators and Activist Audience 1. Searching for gender in the audience: cultural discourses and opinion surveys 2. The spectator in the magazine: cinema-going, ideology and femininity 3. Feminist Spectatorship and Transformative Publics: Aspirations and Legacies of the Feminist Film Festivals 4. Patterns of (in)visibility: Lesbian and Queer Counterpublics 5. Feminists and Porn: Protests and Campaigns Part II: Cultures of Representation: Sexuality, Race and Politics 6. Asexuality and Housework in the Anthological Comedies of the Mid-‘60s 7. Ines Pellegrini: Navigating (Post)Colonial Representations in the ""Sexual Revolution"" 8. The Beginning of the End? Depoliticised Feminism in Fellini’s City of Women Part III: Cultures of Production: Maps, Labour and Archives 9. Sexism and Women’s Work: Mara Blasetti, Production Manager 10. A Map of Open Questions: A Feminist Genealogy of Women Directors (1935-1970) 11. A materialist trajectory in Feminist Filmmaking: Re-Thinking Labour and Consciousness-raising 12. Feminist Spaces and Knowledge Exchange: Adriana Monti’s Archive Conclusions: Feminist Film Culture(s): Collectivities, Archives and Futures Aknowldgements Bibliography

Reviews

This brilliant, comprehensive study of women's participation in Italian film culture through the 1960s and the 1970s fills a key gap in international feminist studies. Through an immersive approach in the fragile archives of female spectatorship and filmmaking, Missero draws a complex, fascinating picture of the impact of feminism during a pivotal phase of Italian film history. --Monica Dall'Asta, University of Bologna This passionate and imaginative engagement with the 'archival turn' breathes new life into cultural history. Weaving a brilliant dialogue between a very wide range of theories and archival sources, Missero's refreshing methodological intervention demonstrates both the tenacity of male privilege and the existence of a feminist film culture as a form of precarious collectivity in postwar Italian film history. --Danielle Hipkins, University of Exeter

This passionate and imaginative engagement with the ‘archival turn’ breathes new life into cultural history. Weaving a brilliant dialogue between a very wide range of theories and archival sources, Missero’s refreshing methodological intervention demonstrates both the tenacity of male privilege and the existence of a feminist film culture as a form of precarious collectivity in postwar Italian film history. -- Danielle Hipkins, University of Exeter This brilliant, comprehensive study of women’s participation in Italian film culture through the 1960s and the 1970s fills a key gap in international feminist studies. Through an immersive approach in the fragile archives of female spectatorship and filmmaking, Missero draws a complex, fascinating picture of the impact of feminism during a pivotal phase of Italian film history. -- Monica Dall'Asta, University of Bologna

Author Information

Dr Dalila Missero is post-doctoral research fellow in Film Studies at the School of Arts, Oxford Brookes University

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