Dreamscapes in Italian Cinema
Fiction & Literature, Drama, Continental European, Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Communication, Entertainment, Film, History & Criticism
| Author: | Axel Andersson, Eleanor Andrews, Linda Belau, Maria Letizia Bellocchio, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Anthony Cristiano, Amy M. Davis, Alessandro de Stefanis, Maurizia Natali, Avishek Parui, Francesco Rabissi, Sandra Waters | ISBN: | 9781611477825 |
| Publisher: | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press | Publication: | January 21, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Axel Andersson, Eleanor Andrews, Linda Belau, Maria Letizia Bellocchio, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Anthony Cristiano, Amy M. Davis, Alessandro de Stefanis, Maurizia Natali, Avishek Parui, Francesco Rabissi, Sandra Waters |
| ISBN: | 9781611477825 |
| Publisher: | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |
| Publication: | January 21, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |
| Language: | English |
Dreamscapes in Italian Cinema explores different representations of dreams, visions, hallucinations, and hypnagogic states in Italian film culture, covering the works of some of the most significant auteurs in the history of Italian cinema (Fellini, Pasolini, Moretti, Bellocchio, among others). Dreams are discussed both in a filmic context, considering the diegetic and formal techniques employed to construct and represent them, and as allegories or metaphors in a broader cultural, political, and social sense (the film industry itself as the proverbial dream factory, and dreams as hopes, aspirations or altogether parallel universes, for example). The book covers works released over different decades and spanning multiple genres (drama, gothic film, horror, comedy), and it is intended to shed light on a topic that is as suggestive as it is insufficiently studied.
Dreamscapes in Italian Cinema explores different representations of dreams, visions, hallucinations, and hypnagogic states in Italian film culture, covering the works of some of the most significant auteurs in the history of Italian cinema (Fellini, Pasolini, Moretti, Bellocchio, among others). Dreams are discussed both in a filmic context, considering the diegetic and formal techniques employed to construct and represent them, and as allegories or metaphors in a broader cultural, political, and social sense (the film industry itself as the proverbial dream factory, and dreams as hopes, aspirations or altogether parallel universes, for example). The book covers works released over different decades and spanning multiple genres (drama, gothic film, horror, comedy), and it is intended to shed light on a topic that is as suggestive as it is insufficiently studied.
