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Dreamscapes in Italian Cinema.

Pascuzzi, Francesco.

Dreamscapes in Italian Cinema. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (207 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Dreamed Cinema, Cinematic Dreams -- Chapter Two: The Uncanny and Mannequins -- Chapter Three: Massimo Fagioli's Influence and Psychoanalysis in Marco Bellocchio's Il diavolo in corpo -- Chapter Four: The Visionary Realism of Marco Bellocchio's Buongiorno, notte -- Chapter Five: The Ironic Oneiric -- Chapter Six: Life is but a Dream -- Chapter Seven: Sublimation, Myth, and the Work of Dreams -- Chapter Eight: The Cinedream in Pasolini and Cassavetes -- Chapter Nine: Gradivae and Nymphs -- Chapter Ten: Dreams, Nightmares, and Hallucinations in Francesca Comencini's Cinema -- Chapter Eleven: The Nightmarish in Dario Argento's Mother Trilogy -- Index -- About the Contributors.

This book explores the oneiric in Italian cinema from filmic representations and visualizations of dreams, nightmares, hallucinations, and dream-like and hypnotic states, to dreams as cinematic allegories and metaphors and the theoretical frameworks applied to the investigation of this relationship.

9781611477825


Motion pictures - Italy - History and criticism.


Electronic books.

PN1995.9.D67 -- D84 2015eb

791.43/653

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