Italian Cinema

Italian Cinema is the only complete and up-to-date book on the subject available anywhere, in any language. New coverage from 1989 to the present includes the Italian horror-film genre, Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful et al.), Bernardo Bertolucci (Stealing Beauty), Franco Zeffirelli (Tea with Mussolini), Michael Radford (The Postman ÝIl postino¨), Gabriele Salvatores (Mediterraneo), Maurizio Nichetti (The Bicycle Thief et al.), Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso, The Starmaker), and much more. The book has been extensively revised and updated, including all-new notes, bibliography, plus videocassette and DVD information.

Preface to the Third Edition	p. vii
Preface to the Second Edition	p. ix
Preface to the First Edition	p. xi
Background: The Silent Era and the Fascist Period	p. 1
The Masters of Neorealism: Rossellini, De Sica, and Visconti	p. 31
Exploring the Boundaries of Neorealism	p. 74
The Break with Neorealism: Rossellini in Transition, Early Antonioni and Fellini	p. 103
A Decisive Decade: Commedia all'italiana, Neorealism's Legacy, and a New Generation	p. 142
The Mature Auteurs: New Dimensions in Film Narrative with Visconti, Antonioni, and Fellini	p. 196
A Fistful of Pasta: Sergio Leone and the Spaghetti Western	p. 253
Myth and Marx: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bernardo Bertolucci	p. 275
Politics and Ideology in the Contemporary Italian Cinema	p. 318
The Contemporary Scene and New Italian Comedy	p. 347
Italian Cinema in the 1980s	p. 384
The Italian Cinema Enters the Third Millennium	p. 425
Revised Notes for the Third Edition	p. 462
A Select Bibliography on the Italian Cinema	p. 488
Locating Italian Film on Videocassette and DVD	p. 532
Index to the Third Edition	p. 534
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