Filming the nation : Jung, film, neo-realism and Italian national identity / Donatella Spinelli Coleman.

Machine generated contents note: Primo tempo -- 1. The uninvited guest: film, psychoanalysis and the Jungian absence -- 2. Archetype and complex: the paradox of dynamic structures -- 3. Jung, film and nation: image as witness of a process of becoming -- Intervallo -- 4. Italian neo-realism and the unmitigated darkness of historical truth -- Secondo tempo -- 5. 1942 -- 1945: War and archetypes an orphan nation with a legacy of murder -- 6. 1947 -- 1949: clearing the debt to the maternal between war and reconstruction -- 7. 1949 -- 1952: Redeemers, tricksters and the wisdom of the unconscious.

"Italian Neo-realism has inspired film audiences and fascinated critics and film scholars for decades. This book offers an original analysis of the movement and its defining films from the perspective of the cultural unconscious. Combining a Jungian reading with traditional theorisations of film and national identity, Filming The Nation re-interprets familiar images of well-known masterpieces by Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio de Sica and Luchino Visconti and introduces some of their less renowned yet equally significant films. Providing an illuminating analysis of film images across a particularly traumatic and complex historical period, Filming The Nation revisits the concept of national identity and its 'construction' from a perspective which combines cultural, psychoanalytic and post-Jungian theories. As such this book will be essential reading for all students and scholars of film and psychoanalysis"-- Provided by publisher.