Marco Bellocchio : the cinematic I in the political sphere / Clodagh J. Brook.

Auteur and autobiography. Constructing an auteur ; Bobbio and My mother's smile : autobiography in Bellocchio's cinema -- Bellocchio's political cinema in the sixties and seventies. The problems of Impegno in the era of postmodernism ; The nature of Bellocchio's Impegno ; The militant documentaries, Nel nome del padre, and Marcia trionfale : contestation, Impegno, and collectivity -- The dreaming "I" : inferiority and Massimo Fagioli's model of the unconscious. Massimo Fagioli and group therapy ; Massimo Fagioli's model of the unconscious ; Screening the "I" : styles of inferiority ; Conclusion -- Bellocchio's political cinema from the eighties to the present. Italian terrorism : Buongiorno, notte ; Vincere : the stripped self ; Conclusion -- The rebel "I" : patriarchy and parents. The woman as rebel : politics and patriarchy ; Rebellion in the name of the father and the family : I pugni in tasca, Il Principe di Homburg, and L'orda di religione ; Conclusion -- Tradition and its discontents. Adaptations and citations : Pirandello, Manzoni, and the overturning of the father-text ; Conclusion : private cinema in a public sphere.

Includes work on psychoanalysis, politics, film production, autobiography, and the relationship between film tradition and contemporary culture, Marco Bellocchio touches on fundamental issues in film analysis.

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