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Сън по време на война. Чочарка
A Dream in the Time of War. Ciociara

Author(s): Nevena Dimitrova
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Gender Studies, Literary Texts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Cultural history, Psychology, Semiotics / Semiology, Customs / Folklore, Theoretical Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Sociology, History of ideas, Gender history, Special Historiographies:, Theology and Religion, Novel, Semantics, Pragmatics, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Individual Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Fascism, Nazism and WW II, Other Christian Denominations, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Social Norms / Social Control, Theory of Literature, History of Art, Italian literature
Published by: Институт за етнология и фолклористика с Етнографски музей при БАН
Keywords: Ciociara; femininity; dreaming; water spring; silence; dream of marriage; bride

Summary/Abstract: The text is dedicated to two movies based on Alberto Moravia’s book “Ciociara”. The author examines some folklore motifs through which the role of the woman is presented. The analysis also includes the dream of a wedding, which transforms the understanding of time-space relationship. Outlining authentic folklore motifs in the film narrative is in the centre of the study, together with the original presentation of the person having the wedding dream, which forms the visual core of the film. Central point in the text is the relation between reality and the way it is experienced by the dreamer.

  • Issue Year: XLVII/2021
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 242-259
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Bulgarian