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Article: Tonia Caterina Riviello, ed. Women in Italian Cinema. La donna nel cinema italiano. (book review)
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- June 22, 2002
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Rome: Ed. Croce, 2001. 268 pp.
THE FIRST THING THAT NEEDS TO BE SAID about this collection of essays concerns the title, for it does little justice to the volume's contents and the scope of analysis, which go well beyond the presence of women in postwar Italian cinema. Frequently, matters relating to the representation of women evolve into sustained discussions involving such directors as Fellini, Visconti, Pasolini, Ferreri, and Pietrangeli. Second, the methodology of criticism displayed in the volume is one in which literary and filmic texts intersect and converge regularly, but the literary forms of analysis have the upper hand over those identified with ...