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Overview
The author explores the rich visual language in which Cavani expresses thought, and the cultural icons that constitute her style and images. This approach affords powerful insights into the intricate interlacing of narrated events. We also come to understand the importance assigned to the gaze in the genesis of desire and the acquisition of knowledge. The films come to life in this book as the classical tragedies Cavani intended, where rebels and madmen experience conflict between historical and spiritual reality, the present and the past. Offering intertextual analyses within such fields as psychology, history, and cultural studies, along with production information gleaned from Cavani's personal archives, Marrone boldly advances our understanding of an intriguing, important body of cinematic work.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691008738 |
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| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Publication date: | 01/30/2000 |
| Pages: | 328 |
| Product dimensions: | 7.75(w) x 10.00(h) x (d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
List of Photographic ReproductionsPreface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Pt. 1 The Labyrinth: Cognition and Tragic Imagination
1 Francesco di Assisi: The Medieval Chronicle and the Establishing of Physical Reality
2 Realism against Illusion: The Ceremonial Divestiture of Power in Galileo
3 Metaphors of Revolt: The Dialogic Silence in I cannibali
Pt. 2 The Transgressive Gaze: Style as Tension
4 Toward a Negative Mythopoeia: Spectacle Memory, and Representation in The Night Porter
5 Staging the Gaze: Beyond Good and Evil
6 Theatricality and Reflexivity in The Berlin Affair
Pt. 3 Metaphors of Vision
7 The Architectonics of Form: Francesco and Milarepa
8 The Essential Solitude: A Conclusion
Notes
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
What People are Saying About This
The Gaze and the Labyrinth will become the benchmark for any further work on Liliana Cavani. Gaetana Marrone is among the first to put the entire subject of Cavani's cinema into order, and does so in a way that is clear, lucid, and pleasing. This is a book built upon many years of careful research—research that is marked by a solid understanding of Italian culture, language, and European intellectual history.
— Peter Bondanella, Indiana University
This is the definitive work in English on Liliana Cavani, whose rightful place in the ranks of Italian cinematic auteurs is hereby critically established. The prodigious learning that Gaetana Marrone brings to this study shows the cultural and technical richness of cinema in general and of Italian art cinema in particular, with Liliana Cavani as one of its foremost practitioners. Marrone's total immersion in the subject produces a critical study from within, at once deeply engaged in all aspects of the filmography, and intellectually rigorous in its approach.
— Millicent Marcus, University of Pennsylvania
"The Gaze and the Labyrinth will become the benchmark for any further work on Liliana Cavani. Gaetana Marrone is among the first to put the entire subject of Cavani's cinema into order, and does so in a way that is clear, lucid, and pleasing. This is a book built upon many years of careful research—research that is marked by a solid understanding of Italian culture, language, and European intellectual history."—Peter Bondanella, Indiana University"This is the definitive work in English on Liliana Cavani, whose rightful place in the ranks of Italian cinematic auteurs is hereby critically established. The prodigious learning that Gaetana Marrone brings to this study shows the cultural and technical richness of cinema in general and of Italian art cinema in particular, with Liliana Cavani as one of its foremost practitioners. Marrone's total immersion in the subject produces a critical study from within, at once deeply engaged in all aspects of the filmography, and intellectually rigorous in its approach."—Millicent Marcus, University of Pennsylvania