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Dreamscapes in Italian Cinema
Edited by Francesco Pascuzzi and Bryan Cracchiolo
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Dreamscapes in Italian Cinema explores different representations of dreams, visions, hallucinations, and hypnagogic states in Italian film culture, covering the works of some of the most significant auteurs in the history of Italian cinema (Fellini, Pasolini, Moretti, Bellocchio, among others). Dreams are discussed both in a filmic context, considering the diegetic and formal techniques employed to construct and represent them, and as allegories or metaphors in a broader cultural, political, and social sense (the film industry itself as the proverbial dream factory, and dreams as hopes, aspirations or altogether parallel universes, for example). The book covers works released over different decades and spanning multiple genres (drama, gothic film, horror, comedy), and it is intended to shed light on a topic that is as suggestive as it is insufficiently studied.
About the authors:
Francesco Pascuzziis lecturer of scientific and technical writing at Rutgers University.Bryan Cracchiolo is lecturer in Italian and coordinator of Italian studies at SUNY New Paltz.
See the publisher website: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
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