Marco Bellocchio

Clodagh J. Brook is associate professor and Head of Italian at Trinity College, Dublin.

TABLE OF CONTENTS


Table of Contents


Note on the Text


Acknowledgements


Chapter One. Auteur and Autobiograpy

Constructing an Auteur

Collaboration and Production

The Zigzagging Path

Bobbio and My Mother's Smile: Autobiography in Bellocchio's Cinema

Conclusion


Chapter Two. Bellocchio's Political Cinema in the Sixties and Seventies

The Problems of Impegno in the Era of Postmodernism

The Nature of Bellocchio's Impegno

La Cina è vicina, "Discutiamo, discutiamo", and Pre-Contestation Impegno

The Militant Documentaries, Nel nome del padre, Marcia trionfale: Contestation, Impegno, Collectivity

Conclusion


Chapter Three. The Dreaming "I": Interiority and Massimo Fagioli's "Model" of the Unconscious

Massimo Fagioli and Group Therapy

Massimo Fagioli's "Model" of the Unconscious

The Calm Sea and Inner Child: Salto nel vuoto and Il sogno della farfalla

Sex, Women, and Irrationality: La visione del Sabba and La condanna

Screening the "I": Styles of Interiority

The Oneiric and States of Hesitation

Space and the Unconscious, or the House as Psyche: Salto nel vuoto and Diavolo in corpo

Temporality and the Unconscious: Enrico IV and the Chronotrap

Conclusion


Chapter Four. Bellocchio's Political Cinema from the Eighties to the Present

Italian Terrorism: Buongiorno, notte


Chapter Five. The Rebel "I": Patriarchy and Parents

The Woman as Rebel: Politics and Patriarchy

Rebellion in the Name of the Father and Family: I pugni in tasca, Il Principe di Homburg, L'ora di religione

Conclusion


Chapter Six. Tradition and its Discontents

Adaptations and Citations: Pirandello, Manzoni, and the Overturning of the Father-Text

Conclusions. Private Cinema in a Public Sphere


Bibliography

Index