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(A)morality of kinship in Italian cinema (1960-2010)
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(A)morality of kinship in Italian cinema (1960-2010)
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Bellocchio
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Maria Letizia
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1974
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Maria Letizia Bellocchio
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Paola
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Paola Gambarota
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Sanguineti White
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Laura
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Laura Sanguineti White
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Baldi
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Andrea
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Andrea Baldi
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Marcus
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Millicent
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Millicent Marcus
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2014
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In the wake of Paul Ginsborg’s historical studies that investigate twentieth-century Italian history in the light of the institution of the family, my research will provide a major contribution to reconsider Italian film history in the light of the relationship between filmic depictions of the family since 1960 and those of the state, and civil society. Despite the vast sociological, anthropological, and historical bibliography on relationships and behavioral patterns of the Italian family, no study has been entirely dedicated to the cinematic depiction of these dynamics. I am interested in how the behaviors of family members are represented in order to determine whether they can be traced to a shared sense of civicness or whether they are symptomatic of a different morality: that of the family. The first part of my research examines the image of the traditional family and its implications for the concept of amoral familism in Luchino Visconti’s Rocco and His Brothers (1960), Francesco Rosi’s Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979), and Marco Tullio Giordana’s The Best Youth (2003). The second part focuses on the breakdown of the traditional family, and on the condition of new social configurations (same-sex families, single parents) in the normative and conventional structures of contemporary politics. Films by Francesca Comencini, Cristina Comencini, Gianni Amelio, Daniele Luchetti, Gabriele Salvatores, Ferzan Özpetek, Kim Rossi-Stuart, and Francesco Bruni play a crucial role in my analysis. I address the following questions: How has the depiction of the family changed since 1960? How are these representations related to amoral familism? What effects have liquid modernity and New Capitalism had on the representations of contemporary Italian families? How has film language helped to define these changes? The large body of films considered has enabled me to shed light on the tension between tradition and innovation in the filmic construction of the politics, practices, and symbolic values of the Italian family from the Sixties to today.
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Italian
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Motion pictures--Italy--History
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Families--Italy--20th century
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Kinship--Italy
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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1 online resource (viii, 203 p. : ill.)
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Ph.D.
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by Maria Letizia Bellocchio
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Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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ETD doctoral
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Bellocchio
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Maria Letizia
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2014-09-21 11:38:14
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Maria Letizia Bellocchio
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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