REVOLUTIONARY DESIRE IN ITALIAN CINEMA
Critical tendency in Italian film between the economic miracles
by Luana Ciavola

'Revolutionary Desire in Italian Cinema' is the first book to draw on psychoanalytical concepts and film theories to examine the critical tendency of Italian cinema and the way in which auteur Italian filmmakers have expressed their counter-ideological thought and criticism against Italian society.

The book examines how, by being committed to Italian social reality, Italian cinema expresses a desire for revolt against the status quo and the dominant ideological order and confirms the central role of Italian cinema in a historical and political context, insofar as it includes a substantial background which highlights aspects of Italian history never considered before in a study on Italian cinema.

'Revolutionary Desire in Italian Cinema' is aimed at academics, researchers, undergraduate and postgraduate students and all lovers of Italian cinema.

Find out more here: http://www.troubador.co.uk/book_info.asp?bookid=1431

WORDS AGAINST WORDS
On the rhetoric of Carlo Michelstaedter
by Malcolm Angelucci

'Words Against Words' is the first book to consider the philosophical works of Carlo Michelstaedter (1887-1910) from a stylistic point of view. It focuses on the links between poetic and rhetoric in Michelstaedter’s major work, 'La Persuasione e la Rettorica', well known for its original multilingualism, embodiment of subgenres, dialogues, apologues and parables, technical jargons.

In the context of the early twentieth century ‘crisis of language’ in Central Europe, Carlo Michelstaedter, a young Italian speaking Jew from Gorizia who left the Austro-Hungarian territory to study in Florence, articulates one of the most radical examples of ‘negative thought’, while at the same time struggling to define a way to regain freedom from contingency, unity of meaning, and the absolute state of ‘persuasion’. Malcolm Angelucci’s book reads La Persuasione e la Rettorica, against itself, demonstrating how it is in the practice of signification, in the ‘writing’ of a philosophy and a poetic, that the challenge against the inadequacy of words is played out, in one of the most interesting examples of Italian speculation of the period.

Find out more here: http://www.troubador.co.uk/book_info.asp?bookid=1157

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