| Dreamscapes in Italian Cinema Contributor(s): Pascuzzi, Francesco (Editor), Cracchiolo, Bryan (Editor), Andersson, Axel (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 1611477816 ISBN-13: 9781611477818 Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press OUR PRICE: $109.89 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - Italian - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 791.430 |
| LCCN: 2014043454 |
| Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Italian Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.7" W x 9.7" (0.90 lbs) 206 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Italy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Dreamscapes in Italian Cinema explores different representations of dreams, visions, hallucinations, and hypnagogic states in Italian film culture, covering the works of some of the most significant auteurs in the history of Italian cinema (Fellini, Pasolini, Moretti, Bellocchio, among others). Dreams are discussed both in a filmic context, considering the diegetic and formal techniques employed to construct and represent them, and as allegories or metaphors in a broader cultural, political, and social sense (the film industry itself as the proverbial dream factory, and dreams as hopes, aspirations or altogether parallel universes, for example). The book covers works released over different decades and spanning multiple genres (drama, gothic film, horror, comedy), and it is intended to shed light on a topic that is as suggestive as it is insufficiently studied. |
Contributor Bio(s): Parui, Avishek: - Avishek Parui is Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras |