A history of Italian cinema

Abstract

Preface 1. The Silent Era 2. The Coming of Sound and the Fascist Era 3. The Neorealist Era: Masters of Neorealism - Rossellini, De Sica, Visconti 4. The Neorealist Era: Exploring the Boundaries of Neorealism 5. The Neorealist Era: The Break With Neorealism, the Cinema of the Reconstruction in Rossellini and Antonioni, Fellini's Trilogy of Character and Grace and the Return of Melodrama with Visconti and De Sica 6. The Italian Peplum: The Sword and Sandal Epic 7. The Golden Age of Italian Cinema: Commedia all'italiana - Comedy and Social Criticism 8. The Golden Age of Italian Cinema: Neorealism's Legacy to a New Generation and the Political Film 9. The Golden Age of Italian Cinema: The Mateur Auteurs - New Dimensions of Film Narrative in Visconti, Antonioni, De Sica, and Fellini 10. The Golden Age of Italian Cinema: The Spaghetti Nightmare - the Italian Horror Film from the 1950s to the Present 11. The Golden Age of Italian Cinema: A Fistful of Pasta - Sergio Leone and the Spaghetti Western 12. The Golden Age of Italian Cinema: Mystery, Gore, and Mayhem-- the Italian Giallo XIII. The Golden Age of Italian Cinema: Myth, Marx, and Freud in Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bernardo Bertolucci 13.. The Poliziesco: Italian Crime Films from the 1970s to the Present 14.. The Old Guard Never Surrenders: Italy's Prewar Auteurs in the 1980s and 1990s 15.. The Third Wave: A New Generation of Auteurs with Moretti, Nichetti, Trosi, Salvatores, Benigni, Tornatore, Giordana, Amelio, and Ozpetek 16. Italian Cinema Enters the Third Millennium Endnotes Bibliography List of photo credits Index.