Righteous Anger in Contemporary Italian Literary and Cinematic Narratives

Stefania Lucamante

Stefania Lucamante

Righteous Anger in Contemporary Italian Literary and Cinematic Narratives

In: Toronto Italian Studies

University of Toronto Press | 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487535087

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This book examines the many ways in which anger and indignation shape authorial intentions and determine the products of contemporary Italian artists.

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LucamanteStefania:

Stefania Lucamante is a professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at The Catholic University of America.

Reviews

Gian-Maria Annovi, Department of French and Italian, University of Southern California:
“Stefania Lucamante provides a very original and insightful work, based on rigorous scholarship and critical finesse. With an impressive critical apparatus, The Upside of Angeris an important contribution to the study of contemporary Italian narrative and cinema. It also represents a theoretically vigorous call for art’s ethical responsibility in the context of today’s populist rage, misogyny, homophobia, and xenophobia.”

Eugenio Bolongaro, Department of Italian Studies, McGill University:
“Stefania Lucamante displays an impressive erudition. The range of philosophical, theoretical and critical texts cited and alluded to is wide”

Frontmatter Free access PDF PDF	i
Contents Free access PDF PDF	v
Acknowledgments Free access PDF PDF	vii
Abbreviations Free access PDF PDF	ix
Introduction Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	1
Part One – Anger and Commitment in the Narratives of Tiziano Scarpa: Impegno in a Liquid Age
Introduction Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	21
1. Pasolini’s La rabbia and the Spectacularization of Scarpa’s Posthuman Aesthetics Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	29
2. An Apocalyptic Kamikaze: Tiziano Scarpa or How to Invade the Reader Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	57
3. The Fundamental Things in Life According to Scarpa Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	77
Part Two – Anger and Spaces of Vulnerability in the Narratives of Melania Mazzucco and Monica Stambrini
Introduction Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	105
4. Melania Mazzucco’s Un giorno perfetto: Domestic Violence on an Everyday Perfect Day Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	114
5. Pushing Boundaries: Road Movies and Gas Stations in Monica Stambrini’s Benzina Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	147
Part Three – Anger and Love in Spaces of Otherness in the Narratives of Paolo Sorrentino, Simona Vinci, and Veronica Tomassini
Introduction Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	175
6. A Recipe for the Advantages and Disadvantages of Love: Anger and Misogyny in Paolo Sorrentino’s The Consequences of Love Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	181
7. Society, Simulacra, and Love: Simona Vinci’s Stanza 411 Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	204
8. Wounding the Individual: Dynamics of Diversity and Anatomy of Love in Veronica Tomassini’s Sangue di Cane Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	229
Afterword Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	251
Notes Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	261
Works Cited Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	299
Index Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	317

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