Dreamscapes in Italian Cinema

Francesco Pascuzziis lecturer of scientific and technical writing at Rutgers University.Bryan Cracchiolo is lecturer in Italian and coordinator of Italian studies at SUNY New Paltz.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionFrancesco Pascuzzi, Bryan Cracchiolo1. Dreamed Cinema, Cinematic Dreams: Dreamscape, Neurosis and Desire in Federico Fellini’s 8½Avishek Parui2. The Uncanny and Mannequins: The Dream-Like Qualities of Two Italian Gothic Films, Il mulino delle donne di pietra and Lisa e il diavoloFernando Pagnoni, Amy M. Davis3. Massimo Fagioli’s Influence and Psychoanalysis in Marco Bellocchio’s Il diavolo in corpoAlessandro De Stefanis4. The Visionary Realism of Marco Bellocchio’s Buongiorno, noteFrancesco Rabissi5. The Ironic Oneiric: Nanni Moretti and the Cinematic Challenges of the 1970sAxel Andersson 6. Life Is But a Dream: Reveries, Nightmares and Other Worlds in the Films of Nanni MorettiEleanor Andrews 7. Sublimation, Myth and the Work of Dreams: Radical Nostalgia and Melancholic Attachment in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Edipo ReLinda Belau8. The Cinedream in Pasolini and CassavetesAnthony Cristiano9. Gradivae and Nymphs: Walking Women in the Dreamscapes of Italian CinemaMaurizia Natali10. Dreams, Nightmares, and Hallucinations in Francesca Comencini’s CinemaLetizia Bellocchio11. The Nightmarish in Dario Argento’s Mother Trilogy: Spatial Oddities and Family TiesSandra WatersList of ContributorsIndex

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