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A series of essays by leading Italian academics, each exploring a key Rosi film. Includes an article by the director himself, in which he reflects on the development and future of Italian political cinema.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Carlo Testa
Salvatore Giuliano: Francesco Rosi's revolutionary postmodernism by Ben Lawton
Hands Over the City: cinema as political indictment and social commitment by Manuela Gieri
Enrico Mattei: the man who fell to earth by Harry Lawton
The other side of glamorous killings: Lucky Luciano, Rosi's neo-realistic approach to Mafia by Claudio Mazzola
Dancing with corpses: murder, politics and power in Illustrious Corpses by Salvatore Bizzarro
Beyond cinema politico: family as political allegory in Three Brothers by Millicent Marcus
Interview with Francesco Rosi by Carlo Testa
The future of Italian film: for a cinema of memory and identity by Francesco Rosi
Filmography
Selected bibliography
Index

About the Author

CARLO TESTA teaches Italian at the University of British Columbia. His work on the European 19th and 20th centuries includes Desire and the Devil: Demonic Contracts in French and European Literature (1991) and a number of articles in English, French, and Spanish, centering on the question of the self, the Utopian issue, and marginality.

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?Seven Italian literature scholars contextualize the undervalued film director....The detailed social background and description provide a valuable reference for scholars.?-Choice

"Seven Italian literature scholars contextualize the undervalued film director....The detailed social background and description provide a valuable reference for scholars."-Choice