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Abstract
Drawing on recent work in feminist film theory on spectatorship that rejects Laura Mulvey’s masculinization of the spectator position in favour of a female spectatorial pleasure, in this essay I focus on the spectatorship of three Italian, internationally celebrated women performers and writers who encountered Paris in their careers. Whether they did so in the imaginary through the performance of a role adapted for the Italian stage or screen, or in person through the staging of a play there, my contention is that their star personae as spectators embodied a continuum of intergenerational, mobile, southern-European cosmopolitanism-in-the-making, and offered their female readers and spectators a means to be self-conscious, engaged spectators themselves. These well-known writers and artists spanned two generations and were known for their acclaimed performances and/or writings. In my analysis of evidence in their autobiographical fiction, diary entries, autobiography, and reportage, I lay bare accounts of admiration and female solidarity among women which typified a particular historical moment in Italy’s past; namely, a burgeoning female culture industry on stage and screen, which was at its most productive and vibrant in the period prior to the onset of fascism.
Translated title of the contribution | Italian Stage and Screen Spectators at the Turn of the Twentieth Century and Parisian Encounters: Duse, Aleramo, Serao |
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Original language | French |
Title of host publication | Spectatrices! |
Subtitle of host publication | De l’Antiquité à nos jours |
Place of Publication | Paris |
Pages | 95-112 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Publication status | Published - 1 Sept 2022 |
Keywords
- feminist film theory
- Italian cinema
- facism
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'"I spy with…": Intergenerational Female Stage and Screen Spectators in Turn of the Twentieth Century Naples and Rome'
Mitchell, K. (Speaker)
1 Dec 2021 → 2 Dec 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk