Synopses & Reviews
Commedia all'italiana, or Comedy, Italian style, became popular at a time of great social change, thus it is particularly attentive to the changing spaces of everyday life and the changing social roles performed within those spaces. This book, using over 150 comedies produced in Italy in the period from 1958-70, examines Comedy, Italian style's representation of gender in the everyday spaces of beaches and nightclubs, offices, cars, and kitchens, through the exploration of key spatial motifs. Fullwood sets out a model for cinema's construction of gendered models of space and spatial models of gender which she uses to look at a genre that was intimately bound up with processes of social change.
Synopsis
Commedia all'italiana, or Comedy, Italian style, became popular at a time of great social change. This book, utilizing comedies produced in Italy from 1958-70, examines the genre's representation of gender in the everyday spaces of beaches and nightclubs, offices, cars, and kitchens, through the exploration of key spatial motifs.
About the Author
Natalie Fullwood is a language tutor in Italian at the University of Leeds, UK. She received her PhD in Italian Studies from the University of Cambridge, UK.
Table of Contents
PART I: CONTEXTS
1. Cinema, Space, Gender
2. Comedy, Italian Style
PART II: SPACES
3. Bodies, Bikinis, and Bras: Beaches and Nightclubs in Comedy, Italian Style
4. Masculinity at Work: Offices in Comedy, Italian Style
5. Driving Passions: Cars in Comedy, Italian Style
6. Recipe for Change: Kitchens in Comedy, Italian Style