List of Contributors Glossary Mattia Acetoso (Boston College, USA) Chronology Mattia Acestoso (Boston College, USA) Introduction Joseph Luzzi (Bard College, USA) Part I - Chronologies and Movements 1. Italian Silent Film Antonio Costa (Università di Padova, Italy) 2. Futurism and Film Michael Syrimis (Tulane University, USA) 3. The Never-Ending Story of Film and Fascism Vito Zagarrio (Università di Roma Tre, Italy) 4. Neorealism Giuliana Minghelli (McGill University, Canada) 5. The Orphaned Generation: Cinema of the 1980s and 1990s Alessia Ricciardi (Northwestern University, USA) 6. Persistence of Vision: Realism and the Popular in Italian Cinema of the New Millennium Millicent Marcus (Yale University, USA) Part II - Gender, Genre, Theory 7. The Five Faces of the Italian Femme Fatale Stephen Gundle (University of Warwick, UK) 8. Italian Women's Cinema and the Wounded Filmic Body Dana Renga (The Ohio State University, USA) 9. The Cinematic Evolution of Commedia all'Italiana Marcia Landy (University of Pittsburgh, USA) 10. Popular Italian Cinema Catherine O'Rawe (University of Bristol, UK) 11. Italian Film Theory, 1907-2015 Gabriele Pedullà (Università di Roma Tre, Italy) Part III - Relations and Debates 12. Film Music: "Kaos and the Taviani" Daniela Bini (University of Texas, Austin, USA) 13. Photography and Film Sarah Carey (McGraw-Hill Education) 14. Television and Film Stefano Baschiera (Queen's University Belfast, UK) 15. Italian Documentary and the Predicaments of the Auteur Luca Caminati (Concordia University, Canada) and Mauro Sassi (Independent Scholar) 16. The Global Impact of Italian Neorealism Laura E. Ruberto (Berkeley City College, USA) and Kristi M. Wilson (Soka University of America, USA) Part IV - Films in Focus 17. Cabiria Robert Rushing (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) 18. Senso Brendan Hennessey (Binghamton University, USA) 19. Bitter Rice Charles L. Leavitt IV (University of Notre Dame, USA) 20. La strada Federico Pacchioni (Chapman University, USA) 21. L'avventura John David Rhodes (University of Cambridge, UK) 22. Once upon a Time in the West Maryann McDonald Carolan (Fairfield University, USA) 23. Theorem Robert S.C. Gordon (University of Cambridge, UK) 24. The Conformist Michael Cramer (Sarah Lawrence College, USA) 25. Love and Anarchy Bernadette Luciano (University of Auckland, New Zealand) 26. The Best of Youth Alan O'Leary (University of Leeds, UK) Part V - Behind the Scenes 27. Sound and Soundtrack in Italian Cinema Monica Facchini (Colgate University, USA) 28. Screenwriting Cosetta Gaudenzi (University of Memphis, USA) 29. Open-Air Cinema Allison Cooper (Bowdoin College, USA) Index
The first multi-author volume to draw on the expertise of leading Italian film scholars to consider the entirety of a nation's cinematic history.
Joseph Luzzi is Associate Professor of Italian and Director of Italian Studies at Bard College, USA, and the author of Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy (2008), which received the MLA's Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies and was named an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice (2009).
This collection of carefully-researched essays forms a
multifaceted, functional, and up-to-date reference volume that
should be on the shelf of every cinephile and student of Italian
cinema.
*Federico Pacchioni, Associate Professor of World Languages and
Cultures, Chapman University, USA*
The writers assembled here by Joseph Luzzi - some of them
well-known scholars at the top of their game, others new voices
emerging with power and flair - engage us at all stages of this
rich new volume on Italian cinema. Here is a reference work that
makes good its title promise - to cover an entire history, from the
age of silent screen to digital images of more than a century
later. The various chapters weave pathways into existing knowledge,
extending lines of inquiry in a variety of enticing directions.
Individual film critics here take different approaches, but in all
cases the writing styles are cogent, intriguing, and a challenge
both to other scholars and to the general reader. A clear overall
chronology by Mattia Acetoso leads the volume. Each further chapter
has a comprehensive bibliography and filmography of the particular
aspect of Italian cinema under consideration. In all respects the
contributors prove worthy of the volume’s dedicatee, Millicent
Marcus, whose pioneering work in the field has for decades drawn
others magnetically to it, and whose own contribution here is one
of many pieces of exemplary exploration. Those readers who are well
acquainted with aspects of Italian cinema will find their senses of
it revitalised, discovering unknown films to watch and old
favourites to consider in new ways. Those by contrast who so far
know relatively little will receive guidance here, and stimulation
to commence their own exploration with fascination and in bold
individual ways. Here is a volume that will enhance love of and
expertise about Italian cinema - and indeed Italian culture more
generally, since all the contributions are richly contextualised -
for many years to come.
*Jonathan White, Professor Emeritus in Literature, University of
Essex, UK*
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