Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-206), filmography (pages 189-192) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : Mapping Italian women's filmmaking -- Walking in resilient cities : Traveling with Celia -- Fegatello : The nightless city -- Urban wandering, scrapbooking, and filmmaking : As the shadow, My Tomorrow, Poetry you see me -- Fegatello : Ophelia does not drown -- Mothers and daughters - stories of survival and care : The white space, I like to work -- Fegatello : All about you -- Coming of age in the city - garbage, corpses, and miracles : Corpo celeste, Domenica, Lost kisses -- Fegatello : The Macaluso sisters -- A psychogeology of the city : N-able -- Fegatello : In this world -- Epilogue : The cities of women.
Summary:
"Mostly relegated to the margins of the cultural scene, and concerned with women's marginality, the compelling films Wandering Women sheds light on tell stories of displacement and liminality that unfold through the act of walking in the city. The unusual emptiness of the cities that the nomadic female protagonists traverse highlights the absence of, and their wish for, life-sustaining communities. Laura Di Bianco contends that women's urban filmmaking--while articulating a claim for belonging and asserting cinematic and social agency--brings into view landscapes of the Anthropocene, where urban decay and the erasure of nature intersect with human alienation. Though a minor cinema, it is also a powerful movement of resistance against the dominant male narratives about the world we inhabit. Based on interviews with directors, Wandering Women deepens the understanding of contemporary Italian cinema while enriching the field of feminist ecocritical literature"-- Provided by publisher.
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