A New Guide to Italian Cinema

This book, with co-author Carlo Celli, is a complete reworking and update of Marga Cottino-Jones' popular A Student's Guide to Italian Film (1983, 1993). This guide retains earlier editions' interest in renowned films and directors but is also attentive to popular cinema, the films which actually achieved box office success among the Italian public.

Carlo Celli attended the Università of Firenze and Bologna, received a B.A. from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. from UCLA in 1993 under the direction of Marga Cottino-Jones. He is the author numerous publications on Italian literature and film including The Divine Comic: The Cinema of Roberto Benigni (2001) and Gillo Pontecorvo from Resistance to Terrorism (2005). He is currently Associate Professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Marga Cottino-Jones received a laurea degree from the Università of Torino and a Ph.D. in Romance Languages from the University of Washington in Seattle. She taught at the Department of Italian at UCLA from 1961 to 1998. She is recognized as one of the leading voices in Italian Studies in the United States for her influential publications on Italian literature, theory and film studies including Order from Chaos in Boccaccio's Decameron; Il Dir Novellando:The Renaissance Novella; A Student's Guide to Italian Cinema (1983, 1993) and Michelangelo Antonioni, The architecture of vision : writings and interviews on  Cinema (1996).