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A New Guide to Italian Cinema, with co-author Carlo Celli, is a complete reworking and update of Marga Cottino-Jones' popular A Student's Guide to Italian Film (1983, 1993). This guide retains earlier editions' interest in renowned films and directors but is also attentive to popular cinema, the films which actually achieved box office success among the Italian public. The Guide introduces the Italian cinema not just as a 20th century phenomenon but as an expression of the deeper roots of Italy's historic, cultural and literary past. Chapters offer historical timelines and commentary on political and cultural events and trends, followed by discussion of the Italian cinema industry and key films. Appendices offer guides to writing about film, statistical data of Italian box office history and short biographies and filmographies of important directors. The aim of the book is to provide the cinephile, student, teacher, or fan with a guide where points of interest may be identified and studied with clarity.
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Italian and Italian American Studies Stanislao G. Pugliese Hofstra University Series Editor This publishing initiative seeks to bring the latest scholarship in Italian and Italian American history, literature, cinema, and cultural studies to a large audience of specialists, general readers, and students. I&IAS will feature works on modern Italy (Renaissance to the present) and Italian American culture and society by established scholars as well as new voices in the academy. This endeavor will help to shape the evolving fields of Italian and Italian American Studies by re-emphasizing the connection between the two. The following esteemed senior scholars of the editorial board are advisors to the series editor. REBECCA WEST University of Chicago
JOHN A. DAVIS University of Connecticut
FRED GARDAPHÉ Stony Brook University
PHILIP V. CANNISTRARO† Queens College and the Graduate School, CUNY
JOSEPHINE GATTUSO HENDIN New York University
VICTORIA DeGRAZIA Columbia University
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A New Guide to Italian Cinema
Carlo Celli and Marga Cottino-Jones
A NEW GUIDE TO ITALIAN CINEMA
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