Cinema of anxiety: a psychoanalysis of Italian neorealism

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Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Revisiting Psychoanalysis and the Cinema 2. Rome: Open City: Anxiety, Ideology, and Cultural Containment 3. Bicycle Thieves: Identification, Focalization, and Restoration 4. La terra trema: Subverting and Structuring Meaning 5. Bitter Rice: The Return of the Repressed (Diva) 6. Senso: Degenerate Melodrama? 7. Psychoanalysis, Cinematic Representation, and Cultural Studies Notes Bibliography Index