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This book explores the oneiric in Italian cinema from filmic representations and visualizations of dreams, nightmares, hallucinations, and dream-like and hypnotic states, to dreams as cinematic allegories and metaphors and the theoretical frameworks applied to the investigation of this relationship.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Francesco Pascuzzi, Bryan Cracchiolo
1. Dreamed Cinema, Cinematic Dreams: Dreamscape, Neurosis and Desire in Federico Fellini's 8¿
Avishek Parui
2. The Uncanny and Mannequins: The Dream-Like Qualities of Two Italian Gothic Films, Il mulino delle donne di pietra and Lisa e il diavolo
Fernando Pagnoni, Amy M. Davis
3. Massimo Fagioli's Influence and Psychoanalysis in Marco Bellocchio's Il diavolo in corpo
Alessandro De Stefanis
4. The Visionary Realism of Marco Bellocchio's Buongiorno, note
Francesco Rabissi
5. The Ironic Oneiric: Nanni Moretti and the Cinematic Challenges of the 1970s
Axel Andersson
6. Life Is But a Dream: Reveries, Nightmares and Other Worlds in the Films of Nanni Moretti
Eleanor Andrews
7. Sublimation, Myth and the Work of Dreams: Radical Nostalgia and Melancholic
Attachment in Pier Paolo Pasolini's Edipo Re
Linda Belau
8. The Cinedream in Pasolini and Cassavetes
Anthony Cristiano
9. Gradivae and Nymphs: Walking Women in the Dreamscapes of Italian Cinema
Maurizia Natali
10. Dreams, Nightmares, and Hallucinations in Francesca Comencini's Cinema
Letizia Bellocchio
11. The Nightmarish in Dario Argento's Mother Trilogy: Spatial Oddities and Family Ties
Sandra Waters
List of Contributors
Index
About the author
Edited by Francesco Pascuzzi and Bryan Cracchiolo - Contributions by Axel Andersson; Eleanor Andrews; Linda Belau; Maria Letizia Bellocchio; Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns; Anthony Cristiano; Amy M. Davis; Alessandro de Stefanis; Maurizia Natali; Avishek
Summary
This book explores the oneiric in Italian cinema from filmic representations and visualizations of dreams, nightmares, hallucinations, and dream-like and hypnotic states, to dreams as cinematic allegories and metaphors and the theoretical frameworks applied to the investigation of this relationship.
