1st Edition
Filming the Nation Jung, Film, Neo-Realism and Italian National Identity
Introduction. Part I: Primo Tempo. The Uninvited Guest: Film, Psychoanalysis and the Jungian Absence. Archetype and Complex: The Paradox of Dynamic Structures. Jung, Film and Nation: Image as Witness of a Process of Becoming. Part II: Intervallo. Italian Neo-Realism and the Unmitigated Darkness of Historical Truth. Part III: Secondo Tempo. 1942-1945: War and Archetypes: An Orphan Nation with a Legacy of Murder. 1942-1943: Leaving the Father’s House. 1943-1945: Towards the End of the War. 1947-1949: Clearing the Debt to the Maternal Between War and Reconstruction. 1949-1952: Redeemers, Tricksters and the Wisdom of the Unconscious. Conclusion.
Biography
Donatella Spinelli Coleman teaches Film and is Honorary Research Fellow at the Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre at De Montfort University, Leicester.
"Using post-Jungian methodology, Donatella Spinelli Coleman shows how, under the intense pressure of the European war and its aftermath, these films embody fluctuating currents emerging from the Italian cultural and transpersonal unconscious of that epoch. She has written a book of great value for students of Film, the History of Culture and the application of Jungian Theory." - John Izod, Professor of Screen Analysis, Film, Media & Journalism, University of Stirling.
