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KONFLIKT POKOLENIOWY JAKO ZWIERCIADŁO SPORU IDEOLOGICZNEGO
GENERATIONAL CONFLICT AS A MIRROR OF IDEOLOGICAL DISPUTE.

A RETROSPECTIVE LOOK AT THE ANNI DI PIOMBO IN SELECTED ITALIAN FEATURE FILMS OF THE LATE 1970S AND 1980S

Author(s): Anna Miller-Klejsa
Subject(s): Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Sociology of Art
Published by: Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. Eugeniusza Gepperta we Wrocławiu
Keywords: POLITYKA I KINO; WŁOCHY LAT 70; CZERWONE BRYGADY; BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI; DINO RISI; GIANNI AMELIO; POLITICS AND CINEMA; ITALY IN 1970S; THE RED BRIGADES

Summary/Abstract: The concept of anni di piombo – literally meaning ‘years of lead’ – in Italian culture used to determine the 1970s, and hence decade, whose political face was dominated by numerous acts of terror (both radical left and neofascist). Miller-Klejsa analyzes the Italian films dealing with this phenomenon,completed in the late 1970s and 1980s. She concentrates on three embodiments in which the father-son relationship (Dear Dad by Dino Risi, The tragedy of the funny small man byBernardo Bertolucci, Strike at the heart by Gianni Amelio). An interesting feature in the movies is the use of the motives from then popular psychoanalysis:among others, Freud’s thesis about the desire to ‘kill fathers’, which frequently was shown in historical context (e.g. the assassination of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro).

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 2 (21)
  • Page Range: 220-241
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Polish