The Birth of Comedy Italian Style

Bini, Andrea

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“…Different films and years are suggested as endpoints for the Comedy Italian Style (Bini, 2015;Di Carmine, 2013;Günsberg, 2005;Lanzoni, 2008), but by 1980, the movement was over. Filmmakers had aged, as had the actors they had relied on.…”

Section: The End Of a Movementmentioning

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“…Confluent love expects men to be whole on their own so that they can pair-bond with an equally whole woman for as long as both parties benefit. Andrea Bini (2015: 9) finds the mask play to be an obvious dramatisation of how the movement’s ‘humour is deeply Pirandellian in describing men incapable of facing the dissolution of traditional values and the consequent discovery of social identity as a mere mask’. Luigi Pirandello was an Italian dramatist who won a Nobel Prize for ‘his almost magical power to turn psychological analysis into good theatre’ (Hallström, 1934).…”

Section: Modern Women Outdated Menmentioning

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“…Dino Risi, 1962). This aesthetically innovative and masterfully executed road movie is often viewed as the quintessential boom-era comedy due to how it ‘discloses fully the genre’s humourist core – that is, the gap in the symbolic realm that causes the split between the character and its social mask’ (Bini, 2015: 142). The male protagonist clings to romantic beliefs, which only make him lonely.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…She downplays these Italian films’ political aspects, viewing their approach to gender dysfunction as more psychoanalytic. Instead of representing the era’s issues as ethical conflicts, the filmmakers narrate ‘the loss of a national symbolic order – what has been defined as the “divided self”’ (Bini, 2015: 205). Such alienation explains the male characters’ psychological crises, which cause them to engage in anti-social behaviour, such as being unpleasant towards women.…”

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“…Maggie Günsberg (2005) finds the movement’s pessimistic approach to be best understood through the psychoanalytic perspectives of Lacan and Freud. Van Ness (2020) substantiates how Freud influenced the works of filmmakers such as Pietrangeli, the most feminist director in a movement criticised for being an ‘all-male genre with all-male stars’ (Bini, 2015: 203).…”

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European movements for confluent love: Revealing romantic delusions with the Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough and Comedy Italian Style

Larsen

2023

Journal of European Studies

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Differences in Northern and Southern European gender relations have historical roots that can be investigated in the regions’ literature and cinema. The mating morality of romantic love facilitated the West’s First Sexual Revolution of the mid-eighteenth century. The Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough, a late-nineteenth-century literary movement, used Darwinian perspectives to reveal romantic delusions and double standards. The movement’s insights undergirded twentieth-century Nordic gender equality and social democratic governance. Coinciding with the Second Sexual Revolution, the film movement Comedy Italian Style (c. 1958–1979) used psychoanalytical perspectives to promote a similar cultural effect nearly a century later. Both movements contributed to the transition to our present era’s demythologised morality of confluent love, which sacralises gender equality, but the Scandinavians’ head start, evolutionary approach and genre choices partially explain why today’s Nordic women are more empowered than their Italian counterparts. Comparing these movements offers insight into how fiction helps populations transition to new mating moralities.

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