Resmini, Mauro, 1981-

Italian Political Cinema : Figures of the Long '68 / Mauro Resmini. - 1 online resource (320 pages): illustrations ; - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

"A dance of figures": for a figural theory of political cinema -- The worker: subjectivity within and against capital - - The housewife: figuring reproductive labor -- The youth: the dialectic of enjoyment -- The saint: an ethics of automomy -- The specter: totality as conjuration -- Apocalypse with figures: the tyrant, the intriguer, the martyr -- The cinema of '68', the '68 of cinema. Epilogue:

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"Traditionally, the definition of political cinema assumes a relationship between cinema and politics, but Mauro Resmini sees this relationship as an impasse. He turns to Italian cinema to explore how films have reinvented the link between popular art and radical politics in Italy from 1968 to the early 1980s, a period of intense political and cultural struggles known as the long '68"--

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Motion pictures--Political aspects
Motion pictures--Philosophy
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Cinema--Philosophie.
Cinema--Aspect politique--Italie.
Cinema--Histoire--Italie--20e siecle.
Motion pictures--Philosophy.
Motion pictures--Political aspects--Italy.
Motion pictures--History--Italy--20th century.


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