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Wandering women : urban ecologies of Italian feminist filmmaking
- Title
- Wandering women : urban ecologies of Italian feminist filmmaking / Laura Di Bianco.
- Author
- Di Bianco, Laura
- Publication
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2023]
- ©2023
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- Description
- xxi, 215 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Mostly relegated to the margins of the cultural scene, and concerned with women's marginality, the compelling films Wandering Women sheds light on tell stories of displacement and liminality that unfold through the act of walking in the city. The unusual emptiness of the cities that the nomadic female protagonists traverse highlights the absence of, and their wish for, life-sustaining communities. Laura Di Bianco contends that women's urban filmmaking--while articulating a claim for belonging and asserting cinematic and social agency--brings into view landscapes of the Anthropocene, where urban decay and the erasure of nature intersect with human alienation. Though a minor cinema, it is also a powerful movement of resistance against the dominant male narratives about the world we inhabit. Based on interviews with directors, Wandering Women deepens the understanding of contemporary Italian cinema while enriching the field of feminist ecocritical literature"--
- Series Statement
- New directions in national cinemas
- Uniform Title
- New directions in national cinemas.
- Subject
- Motion pictures > Italy > History and criticism
- Women motion picture producers and directors > Italy
- Women in motion pictures
- Cities and towns in motion pictures
- Human ecology in motion pictures
- Feminism and motion pictures
- Feminist film criticism
- Motion pictures
- Women motion picture producers and directors
- Feminism
- Italy
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Film criticism.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-206), filmography (pages 189-192) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : Mapping Italian women's filmmaking -- Walking in resilient cities : Traveling with Celia -- Fegatello : The nightless city -- Urban wandering, scrapbooking, and filmmaking : As the shadow, My Tomorrow, Poetry you see me -- Fegatello : Ophelia does not drown -- Mothers and daughters - stories of survival and care : The white space, I like to work -- Fegatello : All about you -- Coming of age in the city - garbage, corpses, and miracles : Corpo celeste, Domenica, Lost kisses -- Fegatello : The Macaluso sisters -- A psychogeology of the city : N-able -- Fegatello : In this world -- Epilogue : The cities of women.
- Call Number
- MFL 23-3809
- ISBN
- 9780253064646
- 0253064643
- 9780253064653
- 0253064651
- 9780253064660 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022017775
- OCLC
- 1341342775
- Author
- Di Bianco, Laura, author.
- Title
- Wandering women : urban ecologies of Italian feminist filmmaking / Laura Di Bianco.
- Publisher
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2023]
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New directions in national cinemasNew directions in national cinemas.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-206), filmography (pages 189-192) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Di Bianco, Laura. Wandering women Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2022 9780253064660 (DLC) 2022017776
- Research Call Number
- MFL 23-3809