I thought i had a pretty good background in the
Humanities but you have to have a graduate degree to
understand this book. The author is so wordy and uses
so many names and concepts it is almost incoherent.
Most people will send it back! What the author is saying
does seem quite interesting, but i have not mastered
the writings of the Marquis de Sade,fascism, theories of
of Freud, neo-capitalism, post war Italian politics,
ideas of Marx, feminism, bourgeois, semiotic, oedipedal,
Sadean, Itailian cinema, narcissism, capitalism, Lateran
Pact,German Fascism, et al - all this just on one movie!
I have some knowledge of all, but not encyclopedic.
C'mon, Ms.Ravetto, write a new edition for us simple bourgeois
folk.