Italian Political Cinema : Figures of the Long '68 /

"Traditionally, the definition of political cinema assumes a relationship between cinema and politics, but Mauro Resmini sees this relationship as an impasse. He turns to Italian cinema to explore how films have reinvented the link between popular art and radical politics in Italy from 1968 to...

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Main Author: Resmini, Mauro, 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • "A dance of figures": for a figural theory of political cinema
  • The worker: subjectivity within and against capital - - The housewife: figuring reproductive labor
  • The youth: the dialectic of enjoyment
  • The saint: an ethics of automomy
  • The specter: totality as conjuration
  • Apocalypse with figures: the tyrant, the intriguer, the martyr
  • Epilogue: The cinema of '68', the '68 of cinema.