Featuring essays by top scholars and interviews with acclaimed directors, this book examines Italian women's authorship in film and their visions of reality. The contributors use feminist film criticism in the analysis of their works and give direct voices to the artists who are constantly excluded by the conventional Italian film criticism.
Author Biography:
Lidia Hwa Soon Anchisi Hopkins, Gettysburg College, USA
Patrizia Carrano, Writer, Italy
Fabiana Cecchini, Texas A&M University, USA
Claudia Consolati, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Luke Cuculis, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Daniela De Pau, Drexel University, USA
Laura Di Bianco, CUNY Graduate Center, USA
Claudia Karagoz, Saint Louis University, USA
Cristina Gamberi, University of Hull, UK
Vera Golini, St. Jerome's University, Canada
Dacia Maraini, Writer, Italy
Gaetana Marrone, Princeton University, USA
Robin Pickering-Iazzi, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Chiara Ricci, Writer and Independent Scholar, Italy
Giovanna Summerfield, Auburn University, USA
Anita Virga, University of Connecticut, USA