{"product_id":"filming-the-nation-9780415555135","title":"Filming the Nation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eItalian neo-realism has inspired film audiences and fascinated critics and film scholars for decades. This book offers an original analysis of the movement and its defining films from the perspective of the cultural unconscious. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombining a Jungian reading with traditional theorizations of film and national identity, \u003cem\u003eFilming the Nation\u003c\/em\u003e reinterprets familiar images of well-known masterpieces by Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio de Sica and Luchino Visconti and introduces some of their less renowned yet equally significant films.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProviding an illuminating analysis of film images across a particularly traumatic and complex historical period, \u003cem\u003eFilming the Nation\u003c\/em\u003e revisits the concept of national identity and its construction' from a perspective that combines cultural, psychoanalytic and post-Jungian theories. As such this book will be essential reading for all students and scholars of film and psychoanalysis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Using post-Jungian methodology, Donatella Spinelli Coleman shows how, under the intense pressure of the European war and its aftermath, these films embody fluctuating currents emerging from the Italian cultural and transpersonal unconscious of that epoch. She has written a book of great value for students of Film, the History of Culture and the application of Jungian Theory.\"\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Izod, Professor of Screen Analysis, Film, Media \u0026amp; Journalism, University of Stirling.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. \u003cstrong\u003ePart I: Primo Tempo.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Uninvited Guest: Film, Psychoanalysis and the Jungian Absence. Archetype and Complex: The Paradox of Dynamic Structures. Jung, Film and Nation: Image as Witness of a Process of Becoming. \u003cstrong\u003ePart II: Intervallo.\u003c\/strong\u003e Italian Neo-Realism and the Unmitigated Darkness of Historical Truth. \u003cstrong\u003ePart III: Secondo Tempo.\u003c\/strong\u003e 1942-1945: War and Archetypes: An Orphan Nation with a Legacy of Murder. 1942-1943: Leaving the Father’s House. 1943-1945: Towards the End of the War. 1947-1949: Clearing the Debt to the Maternal Between War and Reconstruction. 1949-1952: Redeemers, Tricksters and the Wisdom of the Unconscious. Conclusion. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402133774679,"sku":"9780415555135","price":105.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415555135.jpg?v=1730479490","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/filming-the-nation-9780415555135","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}