Italian Cinema from the Silent Screen to the Digital Image

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).

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