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Author Bruno, Giuliana.

Title Streetwalking on a ruined map : cultural theory and the city films of Elvira Notari / Giuliana Bruno
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1993

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 416 pages) : illustrations
Contents Mapping Out Discourse: An Introduction -- pt. I. Suppressed Knowledge of Elvira Coda Notari and Neapolitan Film: A Historical Panorama. 1. Questions of History and Film in Italian Culture. 2. Film Journals and Film Historiography -- pt. II. Film in the Cityscape: A Topoanalysis of Spectatorship. 3. Streetwalking around Plato's Cave, or The Unconscious Is Housed. 4. Spectatorial Embodiments: Anatomies of the Visible and the Female Bodyscape -- pt. III. Manufacturing Film Culture. 5. Dora Film: An Urban Production House. 6. Women at Work: Manufacturing Movies. 7. Dora Film of America: Women and Immigrants in the American Dream. 8. Censorship: A Cut on the Wings of Desire -- pt. IV. The Metropolitan Texture. 9. Fragments of an Analyst's Discourse: Lacunae. 10. The Architecture of Public Melodrama: A Corporeality of the Street. 11. Between the Feast and the Law: The Carnivalization of Narration. 12. City Views: Filmic Cityscape, Artistic Perspective, and Touristic Travel
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-390) and index
Filmography: pages 391-398
Notes English
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Subject Notari, Elvira, 1875-1946 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Notari, Elvira, 1875-1946 -- Criticism and interpretation
Notari, Elvira, 1875-1946 fast
Subject Dora Film.
SUBJECT Dora Film fast
Subject Motion pictures for women -- Italy
Women in motion pictures.
City and town life in motion pictures.
Motion pictures -- Italy -- History
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
City and town life in motion pictures
Motion pictures
Motion pictures for women
Women in motion pictures
Italy
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781400843985
1400843987