A Haunting
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Alberto Moravia
Allegory
Allusion
Ambiguity
Anatomy of Criticism
Ariadne's thread (logic)
Aristotelianism
Assisi
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Beyond Good and Evil
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Charlotte Rampling
Close-up
Clothing
Concubinage
Dark fantasy
Denudation
Dialectic
Dialogic
Dirk Bogarde
Epigraphy
Episteme
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Eroticism
Experiment
Frank Lloyd Wright
Geometry
I cannibali
Iconography
Ideology
Illustration
Incipit
Indelible
Intervista
Lighting
Liliana Cavani
Literature
Magi
Measurement
Metaphor
Midian
Milarepa
Miscellany
Narrative
Nazism
Neurosis
Object relations theory
Of the People
Organization
Ossessione
Pathos
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Proxemics
Referent
Requirement
Rhetoric
Sheed and Ward
Simulacrum
Sophocles
Spectacle
Spello
Storytelling
Subjectivity
Syndicalism
The Berlin Affair
The Night Porter
The Order of Things
Title sequence
Transvaluation of values
Underpinning
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691008738
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jan 2000
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this, the first comprehensive book on Liliana Cavani, Gaetana Marrone redraws the map of postwar Italian cinema to make room for this extraordinary filmmaker, whose representations of transgressive eroticism, spiritual questing, and psychological extremes test the limits of the medium, pushing it into uncharted areas of discovery. Cavani's film The Night Porter (1974) created a sensation in the United States and Europe. But in many ways her critically renowned endeavors--which also include Francesco di Assisi, Galileo, I cannibali, Beyond Good and Evil, The Berlin Affair, and several operas and documentaries--remain enigmatic to audiences. Here Marrone presents Cavani's work as a cinema of ideas, showing how it takes pleasure in the telling of a story and ultimately revolts against all binding ideological and commercial codes. The author explores the rich visual language in which Cavani expresses thought, and the cultural icons that constitute her style and images. This approach affords powerful insights into the intricate interlacing of narrated events. We also come to understand the importance assigned to the gaze in the genesis of desire and the acquisition of knowledge.
The films come to life in this book as the classical tragedies Cavani intended, where rebels and madmen experience conflict between historical and spiritual reality, the present and the past. Offering intertextual analyses within such fields as psychology, history, and cultural studies, along with production information gleaned from Cavani's personal archives, Marrone boldly advances our understanding of an intriguing, important body of cinematic work.
Gaetana Marrone is Associate Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. She is the author of La drammatica di Ugo Betti: Tematiche e archetipi, which won the American Association of Italian Studies Triennial Best Book Award in 1990, and the editor of New Landscapes in Contemporary Italian Cinema, Annali d'Italianistica 17 (1998). Marrone has also produced two award-winning films, Woman in the Wind, starring Colleen Dewhurst, and Princeton: Images of a University.
