Italian Women Filmmakers and the Gendered Screen

Foreword; Patrizia Carrano Preface; Dacia Maraini Introduction; Maristella Cantini PART I 1. Napoli Terra d'Amore...The Eye on the Screen of Elvira Notari; Chiara Ricci 2. Grotesque Bodies, Fragmented Selves: (Anti)Feminist Representations of Womanhood in Lina Wertmüller's Love and Anarchy ; Claudia Consolati 3. Don't Bring a Gun to a Fist Fight: Deconstructing Hegemonic Masculinity through Guns in Lina Wertmüller's Seven Beauties ; Lidia Hwa Soon Anchisi Hopkins and Luke Cuculis 4. Adventurous Identities: Cavani's Thematic Imaginary; Gaetana Marrone 5. Healing the Daughter's Body in Francesca Archibugi's Il Grande Cocomero ; Daniela De Pau 6. A Space of One's Own: Motherhood Revisited in Francesca Comencini's Lo Spazio Bianco ; Claudia Karagoz 7. Women in the Deserted City. Urban Space in Marina Spada's Cinema; Laura Di Bianco 8. Envisioning Our Mothers' Face. Reading Alina Marazzi's For One More Hour with You and We Want Roses, Too ; Cristina Gamberi 9. Alina Marazzi's Women: A Director in Search of Herself through a Female Genealogy.; Fabiana Cecchini 10. Angela/o and the Gender Disruption of Masculine Society in Purple Sea ; Anita Virga 11. Ilaria Borrelli: Cinema and Postfeminism; Maristella Cantini PART II 1. Interview with Alina Marazzi; Cristina Gamberi 2. Interview with Marina Spada; Laura Di Bianco 3. Interview with Alice Rohrwacher; Laura di Bianco 4. Interview with Paola Randi; Laura di Bianco 5. Interview with Costanza Quatriglio; Giovanna Summerfield