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Vincent F. Rocchio. Cinema of Anxiety: a Psychoanalysis of Italian Neorealism.(Book Review)

Publication: Italian Culture
Publication Date: 22-DEC-02
Format: Online - approximately 844 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Vincent F. Rocchio. Cinema of anxiety: A Psychoanalysis of Italian Neorealism. Austin, TX: U of Texas P, 1999. Pp. ix + 190.

After receiving Vincent F. Rocchio's study on Neorealism, two questions came to my mind: What could psychoanalysis still accomplish for a study of film aesthetics a...

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...in general and of Italian cinema in particular? And why, of all periods of Italian film culture, did the author choose Neorealism?

Without fully engaging with the latter, Rocchio constantly addresses the former, at least in its broadest formulation. He often contends that only Lacanian approach has the capacity to provide "a dialectical model of the individual that can take full account of the social/cultural realm and its relationship to the individual" (5). However, when he attempts...

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