From La Strada to The Hours

Part I. "We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle." Self-presentations as objects of desire.- Chapter 1 . Sunset Boulevard: Diva as Demon.- Chapter 2. Breakfast at Tiffany's, style icon as a lifelong lie.- Chapter 3. Le Mépris (Jean-Luc Godard 1963) and its story of cinema: a 'fabric of quotations'.- Chapter 4. look behind the veil - What is actually "obscure" about Luis Buñuel's film, That Obscure Object of Desire? (Cet obscur objet du désir, F, ES 1977).- Part II. Strong Feelings. Women as persistent subjects.- Chapter 5. Poetry and reality. Devastated Landscapes of the soul: La Strada (The Road, I 1954).- Chapter 6. Woman as a Black Bird - The Presentation of Femininity in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (US 1963).- Chapter 7. Trauma, Depression and Transgenerational Suicidal Tendency - Psychoanalytical Notes on the Film Die Wand [The Wall] (A, D 2012) .- Chapter 8. Resilient Femininity in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri .- Part III.Mothers and Daughters.- Chapter 9. Why mothers are immortal - (All about my mother) .- Chapter 10 . Understanding Bridget Jones.The staging of post-feminist female identity in Bridget Jones's Diary (GB, IRL, F 2001).- Chapter 11. From LA STRADA TO THE HOURS - Suffering or Sovereign Femininity in Feature Films.- Part IV. Women's suffering. Illness and mystery in the film.- Chapter 12. Black Swan.- Chapter 13. "You Freud, me Jane?" - Images of Womanhood and love in Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie (US 1964).- Chapter 14. Thrill and Suffering - Misery (US 1990).- Chapter 15. You are the only person who can give me back myself": The passions of self-image and ego distortion - Der Liebeswunsch [The Love Wish] (D 2006).- Part V. String Pullers. When women control events.- Chapter 16. Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca: The Replacement Wife.- Chapter 17. Women's Truth Witness for the Prosecution, US 1958.- Chapter 18. I'm Not Your Nice Girl - Gone Girl (US 2014).- Chapter 19. Gateway to the Night - The Night Porter(Il portiere di notte, I 1974) .- Chapter 20. In Search of the Lost Mother - The Piano (NZ, AU, F 1993).- Part VI . Revolt against the camera. The uprising against "male gaze".- Chapter 21. A Woman in Limbo - Lost in Translation (US 2003).- Chapter 22. Pursuing Emptiness - Obsession and (im) potence in Kathryn Bigelow's Blue Steel (US 1990).- Part VII . Artifacts and Fantasized Women.- Chapter 23. S.O.S. - Spike Jonze's Her as a film about object relations and grief.- Chapter 24. Vagina dentata - Underworld (US, GB, H, D 2003).- Part VIII . Self-empowerment and identity.- Chapter 25. Keep Going - Thelma & Louise (US, 1991).- Chapter 26. From Eternity to Eternity(The Hours, US, 2002).- Chapter 27. Love with a Salty Taste - Carol (GB, US 2015).- Chapter 28. The end of a great love? - Blue Valentine (US 2010).- Chapter 29. Said with flowers - bread and tulips (Pane e tulipani, I, CH 2000).