{"id":2356,"date":"2011-01-19T11:29:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T11:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2011-01-19T11:29:44","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T11:29:44","slug":"eroticism-in-the-italian-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/eroticism-in-the-italian-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"Eroticism in the Italian Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Excerpt from Continental Film Review, September 1970<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Despite trials, prison sentences (albeit suspended) and the holding up of films (as in the case of <strong>H2S<\/strong>), which creates a frustrating economic problem, the Italian cinema continues to embrace a lively erotic element, sometimes justifiably within the context of a serious work, as in the Pasolini-Citti <strong>Ostia <\/strong>or Bertolucci&#8217;s <strong>Il coformista<\/strong>.\u00a0 Sometimes justifiably introduced but in a story that has perhaps too obviously been chosen for its erotic potential.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to note that the Italians have not widely adopted the sex-instructional film that is so popular in Germany and Scandanavia.\u00a0 Eroticism for them is still a matter of living, not of pedagogy.<\/p>\n<p>Some critics have suggested that the Italian cinema is becoming a voyeur&#8217;s cinema, but the Italian&#8217;s essential concern for people and people within their environment ensures a certain contact with life which the true voyeur film has not.<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from Continental Film Review, September 1970: Despite trials, prison sentences (albeit suspended) and the holding up of films (as in the case of H2S)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[324],"tags":[863],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2358,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions\/2358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}