Off Screen
Women and Film in Italy: Seminar on Italian and American directions
Routledge Library Editions: Cinema Series

This feminist anthology from Italy offers an enriching perspective on cinema studies. Focusing on women?s engagement with political theory and film-making, the book never loses sight of the female experience of cinema. It examines how women have chosen to represent themselves and how they have been represented, and how they deal with the cinematic apparatus, as subjects of production, objects of representation, and spectators. A variety of approaches are offered, ranging from psychoanalysis and semiology to history. With an exhaustive filmography, this anthology of chapters by eminent theorists demonstrates the central importance of recent developments in Italy for the whole spectrum of film and feminist studies.

Foreword Laura Mulvey 1. Off Screen: An IntroductionPart 1: The ‘150 Hours’ 2. Editors’ Introduction 3. Women’s Cinema: A Look at Female Identity4. Conditions of Illusion5. Ecstasy, Coldness, and the Sadness which is Freedom6. Introduction to the Script of the Film7. Script of the Film8. On the Margins of Feminist Discourse: The Experience of the ‘150 Hours Courses’Part 2: Criticism: Theory/Practice 9. Female Identity and Italian Cinema of the 1950s10. The Accessibility of the Text: An Analysis of The Lady from Shanghai 11. Language and the Female Subject Part 3: Film Production 12. An Affectionate and Irreverent Account of Eighty Years of Women’s Cinema in Italy13. Filmography: Women in Film in Italy