Preface
I.The Silent Era
II.The Coming of Sound and the Fascist Era
III.The Neorealist Era:Masters of Neorealism—Rossellini, De Sica, Visconti
IV.The Neorealist Era:Exploring the Boundaries of Neorealism
V.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
VI.The Italian “Peplum”: The Sword and Sandal Epic
VII.The Golden Age of Italian Cinema:Commedia all’italiana—Comedy and Social Criticism
VIII.The Golden Age of Italian Cinema:Neorealism’s Legacy to a New Generation and the Political Film
IX.The Golden Age of Italian Cinema:The Mateur Auteurs—New Dimensions of Film Narrative in Visconti, Antonioni, De Sica, and Fellini
X.The Golden Age of Italian Cinema:The Spaghetti Nightmare—the Italian Horror Film from the 1950s to the Present
XI.The Golden Age of Italian Cinema:A Fistful of Pasta—Sergio Leone and the Spaghetti Western
XII. The Golden Age of Italian Cinema: Mystery, Gore, and Mayhem--the Italian GialloXIII.The Golden Age of Italian Cinema:Myth, Marx, and Freud in Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bernardo Bertolucci
XIV.The Poliziesco:Italian Crime Films from the 1970s to the Present
XV.The Old Guard Never Surrenders: Italy’s Prewar Auteurs in the 1980s and 1990s
XVI.The Third Wave: A New Generation of Auteurs with Moretti,Nichetti, Trosi, Salvatores, Benigni, Tornatore, Giordana, Amelio, and Ozpetek
XVII.Italian Cinema Enters the Third Millennium
Endnotes
Bibliography
List of photo credits
Index
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