Melodrama, Masculinity and International Art Cinema

This book offers a detailed study of how some of the most illustrious auteurs in the history of art cinema have made use of melodrama to represent masculine subjectivity on the screen.

List of contents

List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Italian Neorealism and the Emergence of the Male Melodrama: Vittorio De Sica'sBicycle Thieves (1948) and Umberto D. (1952); 2. The Migration of Male Melodrama into Non-Western Cultures: Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy (1955-59) and "Fourth Cinema" ; 3. Hollywood Melodrama as a Vehicle for Self-Projection: Vincente Minnelli's Tea and Sympathy (1956) and Home from the Hill (1960); 4. The Political Turns Personal: Neo-Neorealism and Pier Paolo Pasolini's Accattone(1961); 5. Personal Cinema as Psychodrama: Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries (1957), Winter Light (1963) and Hour of the Wolf (1968); 6. François Truffaut and the Tyranny of Romantic Obsession: The Soft Skin (1964), Mississippi Mermaid (1969) and The Woman Next Door (1981); 7. Figuring an Authorial Fantasmatic: Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), A Room In Town (1982) and Parking (1985); 8. Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the Emergence of Queer Cinema: The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972), Fox and His Friends (1975) and In a Year with 13 Moons (1978); 9. Visual Aestheticism and the Queer Prestige Melodrama: Call Me by Your Name (2017) and Luca Guadagnino's Desire Trilogy; Conclusion; List of Films Cited; Select Bibliography; Index

About the author

Alistair Fox is professor emeritus in the Department of English and Linguistics at the University of Otago

Product details

• Authors: Alistair Fox, Fox Alistair
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.08.2024
• EAN: 9781839993121
• ISBN: 978-1-83999-312-1
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 229 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / General, Film, TV & radio, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Gender studies: men and boys, Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers, Film Theory & Criticism, Gender Studies: Men, PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director, Film history, theory or criticism, Performing arts genres: film, television, radio, and theatre, Vittorio De Sica; Satyajit Ray; Vincente Minnelli