Marco Bellocchio

The Cinematic I in the Political Sphere

Clodagh Brook

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University of Toronto Press
24 April 2010

Film, TV & Radio; Films, movies & cinema; Film theory & criticism; Individual film directors, film-makers; Dance & Performing arts; Other performing arts; Pageants, parades, festivals; Animal spectacles

Marco Bellocchio is one of Italy's most important and prolific directors, with a career spanning five decades. In this book, Clodagh J. Brook explores the boundaries between the public and the private, the political and the personal, and the collective and the individual as they appear in Bellocchio's films. Including 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.

Brook's study interrogates what it means to make personal or anti-institutional art in a medium dominated by a late-capitalist industrial model of production. Her readings of Bellocchio's often enigmatic and perplexing work suggest new ways to answer questions about subjectivity, objectivity, and political commentary in modes of filmmaking. Relating the art of a private director to a public medium, Clodagh J. Brook's work is an important contribution to our understanding of film.

By: Clodagh Brook
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 238mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 480g
ISBN: 9780802097101
ISBN 10: 0802097103
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 24 April 2010
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Clodagh J. Brook is associate professor and Head of Italian at Trinity College, Dublin.

Reviews for Marco Bellocchio: The Cinematic I in the Political Sphere

'Marco Bellocchio's recent return to the centre-stage of Italian cinema has been nothing short of remarkable. Clodagh J. Brook's study-the first of Bellocchio in English-is a highly timely contribution, a vigorous and closely attentive account of his oeuvre to date. It describes a body of work, from I pugni in tasca (1965) through to Vincere (2009), poised at a series of challenging junctures, between the real and the oneiric, the personal and the political, in disquieting, compelling rebellion.' - Robert S.C. Gordon, Department of Italian, University of Cambridge