Melodrama, Masculinity and International Art Cinema

Alistair  Fox

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Alistair Fox

Publisher:: Anthem Press
Online publication date:: January 2023
Print publication year:: 2022
Online ISBN:: 9781839984082

Subjects:: Film, Developmental Psychology, Film, Media, Mass Communication, Psychology

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This book presents a series of essays that reassess the role of melodrama in a number of touchstone films in the art-cinema tradition that explore the subjective experience of a central male protagonist, announcing the emergence of a genre that has progressively proliferated in contemporary cinema. Case studies by such notable auteurs as Vittorio De Sica, Satyajit Ray, Vincente Minnelli, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ingmar Bergman, François Truffaut, Jacques Demy, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Luca Guadagnino demonstrate how the art-house male melodrama offers a vision of masculinity that is sexually fluid, fragmented, unstable, and often incapacitated to the point of paralysis, rather than the heroic stereotypes commonly found in popular genre cinema.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

List of Figures
pp ix-x

Preface
pp xi-xiv

Acknowledgments
pp xv-xvi

Introduction
pp 1-14

Chapter 1 - Italian Neorealism and the Emergence of the Male Melodrama: Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves (1948) and Umberto D. (1952)
pp 15-34

Chapter 2 - The Migration of Male Melodrama into Non-Western Cultures: Satyajit Ray’s The Apu Trilogy (1955–59) and “Fourth Cinema”
pp 35-56

Chapter 3 - Hollywood Melodrama as a Vehicle for Self-Projection: Vincente Minnelli’s Tea and Sympathy (1956) and Home from the Hill (1960)
pp 57-74

Chapter 4 - The Political Turns Personal: Neo-Neorealism and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Accattone (1961)
pp 75-92

Chapter 5 - Personal Cinema as Psychodrama: Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries (1957), Winter Light (1963) and Hour of the Wolf (1968)
pp 93-114

Chapter 6 - François Truffaut and the Tyranny of Romantic Obsession: The Soft Skin (1964), Mississippi Mermaid (1969) and The Woman Next Door (1981)
pp 115-136

Chapter 7 - Figuring an Authorial Fantasmatic: Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), A Room In Town (1982) and Parking (1985)
pp 137-154

Chapter 8 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the Emergence of Queer Cinema: The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972), Fox and His Friends (1975) and In a Year with 13 Moons (1978)
pp 155-176

Chapter 9 - Visual Aestheticism and the Queer Prestige Melodrama: Call Me by Your Name (2017) and Luca Guadagnino’s Desire Trilogy
pp 177-196

Conclusion
pp 197-200

List of Films Cited
pp 201-204

Select Bibliography
pp 205-214

Index
pp 215-220

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