Antonio Pietrangeli, The Director of Women

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Antonio Pietrangeli, The Director of Women is written by Emma Katherine Van Ness and published by Anthem Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1785273191 (ISBN 10) and 9781785273193 (ISBN 13).

One of the founding fathers of neorealism in the postwar period in Italy, Antonio Pietrangeli went on to focus his lens upon the female subject. Eight of his ten full-length films feature female protagonists. This study seeks to better understand both his achievements and his failings as a feminist auteur as well as analyse his films by applying new critical and theoretical approaches. Pietrangeli’s representations of women struggling with questions of identity was a revolutionary act in the 1950s and 1960s. The book makes a case why we should recuperate these films today since the standards for representing women in film continue to fall behind the reality of women’s lives off-screen.