The Italian Cinema Book (Hardcover)

Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors General Introduction: Rethinking Italian Cinema; Peter Bondanella PART I: THE SILENT ERA Introduction; Peter Bondanella 1. Silent Italian Cinema: An International Story; Giorgio Bertellini 2. The Beginnings of Film Stardom and the Print Media of Divismo; John P. Welle 3. The Diva-Film: Context, Actresses, Issues; Angela Dalle Vacche 4. Italian Silent Film Genres: Comics, Serials, Historical Epics, and Strongmen; Jacqueline Reich PART II: THE BIRTH OF THE TALKIES AND THE FASCIST ERA Introduction; Peter Bondanella 5. Fascism and Italian Cinema; David Forgacs 6. Italian 'Matinee Idols' in the Era of the Talkies; Marcia Landy 7. The First 'Comedy, Italian Style': Blasetti, Camerini, and De Sica; Vito Zagarrio 8. Censorship from the Fascist Period to the Present; Guido Bonsaver PART III: POSTWAR CINEMATIC CULTURE: REALISM AND BEYOND Introduction; Peter Bondanella 9. Neorealism and Left-Wing Culture; Stephen Gundle 10. Cityscapes and Cinematic Space; Mark Shiel 11. Dislocated Spaces for New Thought: Paths of Nomadic Wandering in Neorealist Film and Literature; Torunn Haaland 12. Seeing Anew: Children in Italian Cinema, 1944 to the Present; Giovanna De Luca 13. Forgotten Sisters: Italian Cinema from the Perspective of Female Friendship; Danielle Hipkins 14. The Maggiorata or 'Sweater Girl' of the 1950s Mangano, Lollobrigida, Loren; Pauline Small 15. Hollywood and Italy: Industries and Fantasies; Robert S. C. Gordon PART IV: THE GOLDEN AGE OF ITALIAN CINEMA Introduction; Peter Bondanella 16. Material Dreams: Costume and Couture Italian Style From Hollywood on the Tiber to the Italian Screen; Reka Buckley 17. Italian Film Music; M. Thomas Van Order 18. Production Around 1960; Christopher Wagstaff 19. The Muscle-Man Peplum: From Hercules (1958) to Hercules and the Princess of Troy (1965); Jon Solomon 20. Mondo cane and the Invention of the 'Shockumentary'; Gino Moliterno 21. Spaghetti Westerns and Their Audience; Flavia Brizio-Skov 22. Chronicles of a Hastened Modernization: The Cynical Eye of the Commedia all'italiana; Remi Fournier Lanzoni 23. The Political Film; Gaetana Marrone 24. The Giallo and the 'Spaghetti Nightmare' Film; Mikel J. Koven 25. European Co-Productions: the Italian Response to the Hollywood Studio System; Jean A. Gili 26. How the Italians Happened to Cherish and Then to Disdain Their Cinema; Pierre Sorlin PART V: AN AGE OF CRISIS, TRANSITION, AND CONSOLIDATION Introduction; Peter Bondanella 27. Scriptwriting, Italian Style: Scriptwriting for Fellini; Gianfranco Angelucci 28. Modern Mob Movies: Twenty Years of Gangsters on the Italian Screen; Dana Renga 29. Screening Terrorism: Cinematic Portrayals of the Italian Armed Struggle; Giancarlo Lombardi 30. Italian Cinema and Holocaust Memory; Millicent Marcus 31. Italian National Cinema: The Cinepanettone; Alan O'Leary 32. Stars and Masculinity in Contemporary Italian Cinema; Catherine O'Rawe 33. Women Behind the Camera: New Horizons in Contemporary Cinema; Flavia Laviosa PART VI: NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL APPROACHES TO ITALIAN CINEMA Introduction; Peter Bondanella 34. Italian Cinema in the Post-National Age; Laura Rascaroli 35. Postcolonial Theory and Italy's 'Multicultural' Cinema; Aine O'Healy 36. Genre Theory and Mario Bava's Cinema; Mary Wood 37. The Unwanted Guest: Some Remarks on Italian Cinema's Love Affair with Psychoanalysis; Fabio Vighi 38. Fellini and Contemporary International Cinema; Peter Bondanella 39. The Heritage of the Past and New Frontiers for the History of the Italian Cinema; Gian Piero Brunetta Select Bibliography on the Italian Cinema Index