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This book re-examines the films of Antonio Pietrangeli, one of the founding fathers of neorealism in the postwar period in Italy, from a feminist perspective. Of the ten full-length films completed by Antonio Pietrangeli, eight featured a female protagonist. This attention to the female subject is noteworthy today, much less in the 1950s and 1960s.
Author(s): Van Ness, Emma Katherine | Advisor(s): Harrison, Thomas | Abstract: This study will examine the work of Antonio Pietrangeli both as film theorist and as director. Critics have long considered Pietrangeli an anomaly, difficult to place into genres, since his cinema focused primarily on female protagonists. This dissertation will investigate the idea of Pietrangeli as a feminist ...
Jul 10, 2024 · This study of feminism, gender and film theory in Antonio Pietrangeli's films has intended to shed light on the importance of considering the director as a unique filmmaker whose woman-and couple-centric films have been misunderstood or marginalized because of their radical difference.
Antonio Pietrangeli was born on 19 January 1919 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for I Knew Her Well (1965), The Visit (1963) and March's Child (1958). He was married to Margherita Ferroni.
Over a series of intimate episodes, just about every one featuring a different man, a new hairstyle, and an outfit to match, the unsung Italian master Antonio Pietrangeli, working from a script he cowrote with Ettore Scola, composes a deft, seriocomic character study that never strays from its complicated central figure.
May 6, 2020 · Antonio Pietrangeli, The Director of Women - April 2020. Classical criticism has never paid any attention to the reader; for it, the writer was the only person in literature.
Antonio Pietrangeli's The Visitor is a story about a terrible, arrogant, misogynistic Roman man (Adolfo Di Palma, played by French actor François Périer) paying a 24-hour visit to Pina (Sandra Milo, who said last year that this might be the best performance she ever gave), a woman in the Po Valley who he met through her personal ad.
