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Book SynopsisEmphasizing the importance of cultural theory for film history, this book guides readers on a series of "inferential walks" through Italian culture in the first decades of the 21st century. It draws a cultural history that persuasively argues for a spatial, corporal interpretation of film language.
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—Annette Michelson, New York UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsMapping Out Discourse: An Introduction3Pt. ISuppressed Knowledge of Elvira Coda Notari and Neapolitan Film: A Historical Panorama1Questions of History and Film in Italian Culture112Film Journals and Film Historiography24Pt. IIFilm in the Cityscape: A Topoanalysis of Spectatorship3Streetwalking around Plato's Cave, or The Unconscious Is Housed354Spectatorial Embodiments: Anatomies of the Visible and the Female Bodyscape58Pt. IIIManufacturing Film Culture5Dora Film: An Urban Production House796Women at Work: Manufacturing Movies1057Dora Film of America: Women and Immigrants in the American Dream1228Censorship: A Cut on the Wings of Desire137Pt. IVThe Metropolitan Texture9Fragments of an Analyst's Discourse: Lacunae14710The Architecture of Public Melodrama: A Corporeality of the Street16111Between the Feast and the Law: The Carnivalization of Narration18712City Views: Filmic Cityscape, Artistic Perspective, and Touristic Travel201Pt. VFemale Geographies13Anatomy of an Analysis: The Authorial Noir23314Popular Cinema and Women's Literature: The Transito of Female Discourse24115Medical Figures: Hysteria and the Anatomy Lesson25516Topographies of Dark Female Pleasures27817Written on the Body: Eroticism, Death, and Hagiography309Notes329Filmography391List of Illustrations399Index405
