Marcia Landy
Biographic Data
| ID | 311452 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcia Landy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcia |
| FAMILY NAME | Landy |
| SIGNATURE | LANDY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Everything I want to say is in the film itself: The Medium and the Message
This book is dedicated “In memory of Stanley Cavell (1926–2018)” and is linked to Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995), both of whom were pioneers of serious engagement with film of Anglo-American and Contin
Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History
British TV Comedies: Cultural concepts, contexts and controversies
Kamm and Neumann’s edited British TV Comedies is distinctive for its ambitious examination of influential series from the 1950s to the 2000s. According to the editors, the major focus of this volum
Milton on Film
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Cinema and Counter-History
Afterimages of Gilles Deleuze's Film Philosophy edited by D. N. Rodowick (University of Minnesota Press, 2010). ISBN 9780816650071
The Cinema of Michael Haneke: Europe Utopia
A Cinema of Poetry: Aesthetics of the Italian Art Film
Deleuze and Film
David Martin-Jones and William Brown’s volume provides a provocative tour of Gilles Deleuze’s complex and creative thinking on film-philosophy. The twelve essays are primarily a commentary on Deleu
The Cognitive Science of Science: Explanation, Discovery, and Conceptual Change
Film and History
Sensing the Past: Hollywood stars and historical vision
Through a rethinking of the cultural impact of Hollywood stars embodying ‘master narratives’ of United States history, Jim Cullen challenges longstanding, but slowly changing, conceptions of histor
Entering the Frame: Cinema and History in the Films of Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi
Robert Lumley (2011), Entering the Frame: Cinema and History in the Films of Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi (Oxford: Peter Lang), 192 pp., ISBN 9783034301138, $51.95, soft cover Robert L
How to Catch a Robot Rat: When Biology Inspires Innovation. By Agnès Guillot and Jean-Arcady Meyer
How to Catch a Robot Rat: When Biology Inspires Innovation. By Agnes Guillot and Jean-Arcady Meyer. Translated by Susan Emanuel (Cambridge, MA: MIT University Press, 2010), xiii + 226 pp. $29.95 cl
An 'outsider's' reflections on Italian cinematic culture
Marcia Landy is Distinguished Professor in English/Film Studies with a Secondary appointment in the French and Italian Department at the University of Pittsburgh. Her books on culture and cinema include Fascism in Film: The Italian Commercial Cinema 1931-1943 (Princeton, 1986); Film, Politics, and Gramsci (Minnesota, 1994); The Folklore of Consensus: Theatricality in Italian Cinema (SUNY, 1998); Italian Film (Cambridge, 2000), and Stardom Italian…
The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory by Norman M. Klein (revd edn)
Royal Portraits in Hollywood: Filming the Lives of Queens (review)
Reviewed by: Royal Portraits in Hollywood: Filming the Lives of Queens Marcia Landy (bio) Elizabeth A. Ford and Deborah C. Mitchell. Royal Portraits in Hollywood: Filming the Lives of Queens. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2009. 327 pp. ISBN 978-0-813-12543-5, $40.00. Royal Portraits in Hollywood: Filming the Lives of Queens investigates a timely subject: namely, the resurgent fascination with female sovereigns. The book intersects with current criti…
Gramsci, Passive Revolution, and Media
The last decades of the twentieth century witnessed a restructuring of capital and redistribution of wealth to the top of an economic pyramid on an international scale. This neoliberal “reform” involves the gradual dismantling of the welfare state, relegation of the employed and unemployable to the bottom of the social and economic pyramid, and perpetual warfare on national and global fronts. Antonio Gramsci's analysis of “passive revolution” see…
The Dream of the Gesture: The Body of/in Todd Haynes's Films
Research Article| August 01 2003 “The Dream of the Gesture”: The Body of/in Todd Haynes's Films Marcia Landy Marcia Landy Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2003) 30 (3): 123–140. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-30-3-123 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Marcia Landy; “The Dream of the Gesture”: The Body of/in Todd Haynes's Films. boundary 2 1 Aug…
Just an image: Godard, cinema, and philosophy
Italian Film
Italian Film examines the extraordinary cinematic tradition of Italy, from the silent era to the present. Analyzing film within the framework of Italy's historical, social, political, and cultural evolution during the twentieth century, Marcia Landy traces the construction of a coherent national cinema and its changes over time. Examining the cinematic uses of landscape, architecture, regional, rural, and metropolitan locales, and representations…
The International Cast of Irish Cinema: The Case of Michael Collins
Research Article| May 01 2000 The International Cast of Irish Cinema: The Case of Michael Collins Marcia Landy Marcia Landy Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2000) 27 (2): 21–44. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-27-2-21 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search…
The Folklore of Consensus. Theatricality in the Italian Cinema, 1930-1943
Film and English/American Studies: What are we doing in an English department
Which Way Is America: Americanism and the Italian Western
In the Prison Notebooks, Antonio Gramsci explored the role that American capitalism and its corresponding cultural forms had begun to play in European culture. He was concerned with identifying a type of worker arising from the penetration of Fordism into the European context.1 As is characteristic of Gramsci's nonreductive mode of treating questions of capitalism and culture, he did not focus on the one-to-one relationship between base and super…
Opera, cinema, melodrama, and history: The case of Italian cinema
British Genres: Cinema and Society, 1930-1960
In this unprecedented survey of British cinema from the 1930s to the New Wave of the 1960s, Marcia Landy explores how cinematic representation and social history converge. Landy focuses on the genre film, a product of British mass culture often dismissed by critics as "unrealistic," showing that in England such cinema subtly dramatized unresolved cultural conflicts and was, in fact, more popular than critics have claimed. Her discussion covers hu…
Culture and Politics in the Work of Antonio Gramsci
Gramsci is an important figure in the contemporary effort to create a theory and a practice of social change without reproducing the monolithic and totalistic thinking which has divided and often undermined the work of the left. Not offering any blueprints, his work raises questions about the role of intellectuals in social change and possible directions for political/cultural struggle which may avoid past problems. In particular, the Quaderni of…
"Political Allegory and "Engaged Cinema: "Sembene's "Xala
Sembene Ousmane's film, Xala (1974), based on his own novel of the same name,1 provides a dense and complex text for understanding what Sembene himself has called engaged cinema. In his public statements and in his novels and films, he has sought to articulate and to practice a cinema which sets itself in opposition to dominant political ideas and cinematic forms. A student of Marxism-Leninism, Sembene employs the theories and methods of dialecti…
The Dream of the Gesture: The Body of/in Todd Haynes's Films
Research Article| August 01 2003 “The Dream of the Gesture”: The Body of/in Todd Haynes's Films Marcia Landy Marcia Landy Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2003) 30 (3): 123–140. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-30-3-123 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Marcia Landy; “The Dream of the Gesture”: The Body of/in Todd Haynes's Films. boundary 2 1 Aug…
Entering the Frame: Cinema and History in the Films of Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi
Robert Lumley (2011), Entering the Frame: Cinema and History in the Films of Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi (Oxford: Peter Lang), 192 pp., ISBN 9783034301138, $51.95, soft cover Robert L
Gramsci, Passive Revolution, and Media
The last decades of the twentieth century witnessed a restructuring of capital and redistribution of wealth to the top of an economic pyramid on an international scale. This neoliberal “reform” involves the gradual dismantling of the welfare state, relegation of the employed and unemployable to the bottom of the social and economic pyramid, and perpetual warfare on national and global fronts. Antonio Gramsci's analysis of “passive revolution” see…
Gramsci beyond Gramsci: The Writings of Toni Negri
This is the new politics: the need to recharacterize the fundamental struggles in terms of a continuous conquest of (new) arenas of freedom, democracy, and creativity. And, whatever the militants and the individuals who have given up on all may say, there is nothing anachronistic or retrograde or anarchist in this way of conceiving things; indeed, it attempts to understand contemporary social transformations-including their contradictions-on the …
Politics, Aesthetics, and Patriarchy in the Confessions of Winifred Wagner
"Political Allegory and "Engaged Cinema: "Sembene's "Xala
Sembene Ousmane's film, Xala (1974), based on his own novel of the same name,1 provides a dense and complex text for understanding what Sembene himself has called engaged cinema. In his public statements and in his novels and films, he has sought to articulate and to practice a cinema which sets itself in opposition to dominant political ideas and cinematic forms. A student of Marxism-Leninism, Sembene employs the theories and methods of dialecti…
Seeing is believing
Bill Nichols. Ideology and the Image: Social Representation in the Cinema and Other Arts. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1981. 352 pp. $29.95 cloth. $9.95 paper
Fascism in Film: The Italian Commercial Cinema, 1931-1943
Through her study of the narrative themes and strategies of Italian commercial sound films of the fascist era, Marcia Landy shows that cultural life under fascism was not monopolized by official propaganda.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions p…
Culture and Politics in the Work of Antonio Gramsci
Gramsci is an important figure in the contemporary effort to create a theory and a practice of social change without reproducing the monolithic and totalistic thinking which has divided and often undermined the work of the left. Not offering any blueprints, his work raises questions about the role of intellectuals in social change and possible directions for political/cultural struggle which may avoid past problems. In particular, the Quaderni of…
Socialist Education Today: Pessimism or Optimism of the Intellect
British Genres: Cinema and Society, 1930-1960
In this unprecedented survey of British cinema from the 1930s to the New Wave of the 1960s, Marcia Landy explores how cinematic representation and social history converge. Landy focuses on the genre film, a product of British mass culture often dismissed by critics as "unrealistic," showing that in England such cinema subtly dramatized unresolved cultural conflicts and was, in fact, more popular than critics have claimed. Her discussion covers hu…
Postmodernism as Folklore in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema
(1993). Postmodernism as Folklore in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 25-45
Film, politics, and Gramsci
Gramsci beyond Gramsci: The Writings of Toni Negri
This is the new politics: the need to recharacterize the fundamental struggles in terms of a continuous conquest of (new) arenas of freedom, democracy, and creativity. And, whatever the militants and the individuals who have given up on all may say, there is nothing anachronistic or retrograde or anarchist in this way of conceiving things; indeed, it attempts to understand contemporary social transformations-including their contradictions-on the …
"Dead Again" or A-Live Again: Postmodern or Postmortem
Which Way Is America: Americanism and the Italian Western
In the Prison Notebooks, Antonio Gramsci explored the role that American capitalism and its corresponding cultural forms had begun to play in European culture. He was concerned with identifying a type of worker arising from the penetration of Fordism into the European context.1 As is characteristic of Gramsci's nonreductive mode of treating questions of capitalism and culture, he did not focus on the one-to-one relationship between base and super…
Opera, cinema, melodrama, and history: The case of Italian cinema
Film and English/American Studies: What are we doing in an English department
The Folklore of Consensus. Theatricality in the Italian Cinema, 1930-1943
Italian Film
Italian Film examines the extraordinary cinematic tradition of Italy, from the silent era to the present. Analyzing film within the framework of Italy's historical, social, political, and cultural evolution during the twentieth century, Marcia Landy traces the construction of a coherent national cinema and its changes over time. Examining the cinematic uses of landscape, architecture, regional, rural, and metropolitan locales, and representations…
The International Cast of Irish Cinema: The Case of Michael Collins
Research Article| May 01 2000 The International Cast of Irish Cinema: The Case of Michael Collins Marcia Landy Marcia Landy Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2000) 27 (2): 21–44. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-27-2-21 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search…
Just an image: Godard, cinema, and philosophy
The Dream of the Gesture: The Body of/in Todd Haynes's Films
Research Article| August 01 2003 “The Dream of the Gesture”: The Body of/in Todd Haynes's Films Marcia Landy Marcia Landy Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2003) 30 (3): 123–140. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-30-3-123 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Marcia Landy; “The Dream of the Gesture”: The Body of/in Todd Haynes's Films. boundary 2 1 Aug…
Gramsci, Passive Revolution, and Media
The last decades of the twentieth century witnessed a restructuring of capital and redistribution of wealth to the top of an economic pyramid on an international scale. This neoliberal “reform” involves the gradual dismantling of the welfare state, relegation of the employed and unemployable to the bottom of the social and economic pyramid, and perpetual warfare on national and global fronts. Antonio Gramsci's analysis of “passive revolution” see…
Royal Portraits in Hollywood: Filming the Lives of Queens (review)
Reviewed by: Royal Portraits in Hollywood: Filming the Lives of Queens Marcia Landy (bio) Elizabeth A. Ford and Deborah C. Mitchell. Royal Portraits in Hollywood: Filming the Lives of Queens. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2009. 327 pp. ISBN 978-0-813-12543-5, $40.00. Royal Portraits in Hollywood: Filming the Lives of Queens investigates a timely subject: namely, the resurgent fascination with female sovereigns. The book intersects with current criti…
The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory by Norman M. Klein (revd edn)
An 'outsider's' reflections on Italian cinematic culture
Marcia Landy is Distinguished Professor in English/Film Studies with a Secondary appointment in the French and Italian Department at the University of Pittsburgh. Her books on culture and cinema include Fascism in Film: The Italian Commercial Cinema 1931-1943 (Princeton, 1986); Film, Politics, and Gramsci (Minnesota, 1994); The Folklore of Consensus: Theatricality in Italian Cinema (SUNY, 1998); Italian Film (Cambridge, 2000), and Stardom Italian…
Entering the Frame: Cinema and History in the Films of Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi
Robert Lumley (2011), Entering the Frame: Cinema and History in the Films of Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi (Oxford: Peter Lang), 192 pp., ISBN 9783034301138, $51.95, soft cover Robert L
How to Catch a Robot Rat: When Biology Inspires Innovation. By Agnès Guillot and Jean-Arcady Meyer
How to Catch a Robot Rat: When Biology Inspires Innovation. By Agnes Guillot and Jean-Arcady Meyer. Translated by Susan Emanuel (Cambridge, MA: MIT University Press, 2010), xiii + 226 pp. $29.95 cl
Art (25 works) · Art history (17 works) · Sociology (16 works) · History (14 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (14 works) · Movie theater (14 works) · Aesthetics (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Literature (10 works) · Law (9 works)