Dreamscapes in Italian Cinema

Francesco Pascuzzi is lecturer of scientific and technical writing at Rutgers University. Bryan Cracchiolo is lecturer in Italian and coordinator of Italian studies at SUNY New Paltz.

Acknowledgements

Introduction
Francesco Pascuzzi, Bryan Cracchiolo

1. Dreamed Cinema, Cinematic Dreams: Dreamscape, Neurosis and Desire in Federico Fellini’s 8½
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