Italy’s Other Women 87 The book investigates the dispersed

The book investigates the dispersed emergence of the new visual regime associated with nineteenth-century pre-cinematic spectacles in the literary imagination of the previous centuries

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Italy’s Other Women 87 The book investigates the dispersedIn the period 1940 to 1965 the female prostitute featured in at least ten per cent of all Italian made films, but she cast her shadow over many more. With reference to the changing social and film industrial context, this book explains why the figure of the female prostitute was so prevalent in Italian cinema of this period and offers a new account of her on screen presence. It shows that the prostitutes that populate Italian cinema are much more than