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(2009) Sexual difference in European cinema, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
When Antonioni told painter and personal friend Mark Rothko that his pictures were, like his own films, "about nothing, with precision" (in Chatman 1985: 54), he hit the right chord: the ultimate aim of his filmmaking is to show how visual representation hinges on a short-circuit between what we see and what we do not see, what we look at and what is already looking back at us. In this section I focus on this short-circuit, or dislocation, discussing a number of female characters whose desire pushes them to flirt with the void of the cinematic image.
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Vighi, F. (2009). About nothing, with precision: femininity unbound from Ophuls to Antonioni, in Sexual difference in European cinema, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 176-202.
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