One of the founding fathers of neorealism in the postwar period in Italy, Antonio Pietrangeli went on to focus his lens upon the female subject. Eight of his ten full-length films feature female protagonists. This study seeks to better understand both his achievements and his failings as a feminist auteur as well as analyse his films by applying new critical and theoretical approaches. Pietrangeli’s representations of women struggling with questions of identity was a revolutionary act in the 1950s and 1960s. The book makes a case why we should recuperate these films today since the standards for representing women in film continue to fall behind the reality of women’s lives off-screen.
- ISBN10 1785273191
- ISBN13 9781785273193
- Publish Date 30 April 2020
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Anthem Press
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 270
- Language English