I.B. Tauris 2004, p.30 Covering the key Italian Spaghetti Westerns - mainly the good but also the bad and the ugly - this is an authoritative, entertaining and comprehensive companion to the mythical Spaghetti West. Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy led the field but many more major Spaghetti Westerns were made by important directors, including Sergio Corbucci's Navajo Joe, Carlo...
Amsterdam University Press, 2002, p.302 This monograph departs from traditional studies of national cinema by accentuating the intercultural and intertextual links between Malaysian films and Asian (as well as European and American) film practices. Using cross-cultural analysis, the author characterizes Malaysia as a pluralist society consisting of a multiplicity of cultural...
The University of Chicago Press, 2009, p.363 Italian novelist, poet, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was brutally killed in Rome in 1975, a macabre end to a career that often explored humanity’s capacity for violence and cruelty. Along with the mystery of his murderer’s identity, Pasolini left behind a controversial but acclaimed oeuvre as well as a final quartet of beguiling...
University of Minnesota Press, 2010, P. 227 Italian filmmaker Dario Argento’s horror films have been described as a blend of Alfred Hitchcock and George Romero — psychologically rich, colorful, and at times garish, excelling at taking the best elements of the splatter and exploitation genres and laying them over a dark undercurrent of human emotions and psyches. Broken...
I.B.Tauris, 2006. 288 p. Language: English. Covering the key Italian Spaghetti Westerns - mainly the good but also the bad and the ugly - this is an authoritative, entertaining and comprehensive companion to the mythical Spaghetti West. Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy led the field but many more major Spaghetti Westerns were made by important directors, including Sergio...
NY, London: Routledge, 2009. — 198 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-415-96287-2, 978-0-203-88488-1. Through a comparative approach of current theories developed on ideology and an analysis of official documents from the Vatican and the United States Department of State, the book investigates the decisive role that American production companies played in the development of the Italian film...
Austin: University of Texas, 2008. — 333 p. — ISBN: 978-0-292-71661-2. As scientific discoveries and technological advances radically modernized Europe around the turn of the twentieth century, artists of all types began questioning what it means to be human in an increasingly mechanistic world. Animated by a luminous goddess at its center, the diva film provided a forum for...
The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2008. — 501 p. Editor’s Foreword (Jon Woronoff). Chronology. The dictionary. Appendix: Winners at the Venice Festival and of the David. Donatello and Nastri d’argento.
Revised and updated edition. — Guildford, Surrey, England, UK.: FAB Press, 1999. — 111 p. — ISBN: 9780952926047. Cannibal Holocaust is widely acclaimed as being one of the greatest horror movies of all time; indeed this hugely influential film is so devastatingly effective that it is often wrongly accused of being a 'Snuff' movie. This book is the fully authorised guide to the...
The Massachusetts Review Vol. 43, No. 1 (Spring, 2002), pp. 89-103. André Bazin and Italian Neorealism presents a new selection of André Bazin's writings on Vittorio De Sica, Roberto Rossellini, and Federico Fellini; lesser known but important neorealist works such as The Roof, Forbidden Christ, and Love in the City; and vital topics like realism versus reality, neorealism's...
London: I. B. Tauris, 2011. — 325 p. Uncovering a treasure trove of Italian films from The Leopard to Puma Man - Italian filmmakers have created some of the most magical and moving, violent and controversial films in world cinema. During its twentieth-century heyday, Italy's film industry was second only to Hollywood as a popular film factory, exporting cinematic dreams...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 193 p. Roberto Rossellini’s Rome Open City instantly, markedly, and permanently changed the landscape of film history. Made at the end of World War II, it has been credited with initiating a revolution in and reinvention of modern cinema, bold claims that are substantiated when its impact on how films are conceptualized, made, structured,...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 205 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-521-57325-2, ISBN13: 978-0-521-57573-7 The Films of Federico Fellini examines the career of one of Italy’s most renowned filmmakers through close analysis of five masterpieces that span his career: La strada , La dolce vita , 8 1⁄2 , Amarcord , and Intervista . Providing an overview of Fellini’s early career as a...
Cambridge University Press, 1993. - 180 p. The Films of Roberto Rossellini traces the career of one of the most influential Italian filmmakers through close analysis of the seven films that mark important turning points in his evolution: The Man with a Cross (1943), Open City (1945), Paisan (1946), The Machine to Kill Bad People (1948-52), Voyage in Italy (1953), General Delia...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — 256 p. 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...