Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Mapping Out Discourse: An Introduction
Pt. I Suppressed Knowledge of Elvira Coda Notari and Neapolitan Film: A Historical Panorama
1 Questions of History and Film in Italian Culture
2 Film Journals and Film Historiography
Pt. II Film in the Cityscape: A Topoanalysis of Spectatorship
3 Streetwalking around Plato's Cave, or The Unconscious Is Housed
4 Spectatorial Embodiments: Anatomies of the Visible and the Female Bodyscape
Pt. III Manufacturing Film Culture
5 Dora Film: An Urban Production House
6 Women at Work: Manufacturing Movies
7 Dora Film of America: Women and Immigrants in the American Dream
8 Censorship: A Cut on the Wings of Desire
Pt. IV The Metropolitan Texture
9 Fragments of an Analyst's Discourse: Lacunae
10 The Architecture of Public Melodrama: A Corporeality of the Street
11 Between the Feast and the Law: The Carnivalization of Narration
12 City Views: Filmic Cityscape, Artistic Perspective, and Touristic Travel
Pt. V Female Geographies
13 Anatomy of an Analysis: The Authorial Noir
14 Popular Cinema and Women's Literature: The Transito of Female Discourse
15 Medical Figures: Hysteria and the Anatomy Lesson
16 Topographies of Dark Female Pleasures
17 Written on the Body: Eroticism, Death, and Hagiography
Notes
Filmography
List of Illustrations
Index