Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Notes on Contributors xii
Editor’s Notes xix
Glossary xx
Preface and In Memoriam xxiv
Part I First Things 1
1 Introduction 3Frank Burke
2 Italian Cinema Studies: A Conversation with Peter Bondanella 16Frank Burke
Part II Historical/Chronological Perspectives 29
Silent Cinema 29
3 Silent Italian Cinema: A New Medium for Old Geographies 31Giorgio Bertellini
4 Stardom in Italian Silent Cinema 48Jacqueline Reich
Fascism and Italian Cinema 65
5 Genre, Politics, and the Fascist Subject in the Cinema of Italy (1922–1945) 66Marcia Landy
The Italian Film Industry 83
6 Staying Alive: The Italian Film Industry from the Postwar to Today 84Barbara Corsi
Cinema and Religion 103
7 Italian Cinema and Catholicism: From Vigilanti cura to Vatican II and Beyond 104Marco Vanelli
Neorealism 121
8 The Italian Neorealist Experience: The Orphan Child and New Ways of Looking at the World 122Lorenzo Borgotallo
9 Italian Neorealism: Quotidian Storytelling and Transnational Horizons 139Laura E. Ruberto and Kristi M. Wilson
Stardom and the 1950s 157
10 Italian Female Stars and Their Fans in the 1950s and 1960s 158Réka Buckley
Film Comedy—the 1950s and Beyond 179
11 The Popularity of Italian Film Comedy 180Louis Bayman
12 The Question of Italian National Character and the Limits of Commedia all’italiana: Alberto Sordi, Federico Fellini, and Carlo Lizzani 198Stephen Gundle
French-Italian Film Collaborations into the 1960s 215
13 Cross-Fertilization between France and Italy from Neorealism through the 1960s 216Adriano Aprà
Auteur Cinema (1960s and 1970s) 227
14 Italian 1960s Auteur Cinema (and beyond): Classic, Modern, Postmodern 228Veronica Pravadelli
Popular Film Genres (1950s to 1970s) 249
15 Italian Popular Film Genres 250Austin Fisher
Politics and/of Terrorism (1960s to the Present) 267
16 The Representation of Terrorism in Italian Cinema 268Christian Uva
Italian Cinema from the 1970s to the Present 283
17 From Cinecitta to the Small Screen: Italian Cinema After the Mid-1970s Crisis 284Tiziana Ferrero-Regis
18 Contemporary Italian Film in the New Media World 303Mary P. Wood
Part III Alternative Film Forms 323
19 Thinking Cinema: The Essay Film Tradition in Italy 325Laura Rascaroli
20 Italian Experimental Cinema: Art, Politics, Poetry 340Sandra Lischi
21 Notes on the History of Italian Nonfiction Film 361Luca Caminati and Mauro Sassi
Part IV Critical, Aesthetic, and Theoretical Issues 375
22 A Century of Music in Italian Cinema 377Emanuele D’Onofrio
23 The Practice of Dubbing and the Evolution of the Soundtrack in Italian Cinema: A Schizophonic Take 393Antonella Sisto
24 Watching Italians Turn Around: Gender, Looking, and Roman/Cinematic Modernity 408John David Rhodes
25 Women in Italian Cinema: From the Age of Silent Cinema to the Third Millennium 427Bernadette Luciano and Susanna Scarparo
26 Imagining the Mezzogiorno: Old and New Paradigms 447Fulvio Orsitto
27 The Queerness of Italian Cinema 467Derek Duncan
28 An Accented Gaze: Italy’s Transmigrant Filmmakers 484Áine O’Healy
29 How to Tell Time: Deleuze and Italian Cinema 500Angelo Restivo
30 The Screen in the Mirror: Thematic and Textual Reflexivity in Italian Cinema 512Stefania Parigi
31 Deterritorialized Spaces and Queer Clocks: Intertextuality in Italian Cinema 531Marguerite Waller
Part V Last Things 551
32 Forum: The Present State and Likely Prospects of Italian Cinema and Cinema Studies 553Flavia Brizio-Skov, Flavia Laviosa, Millicent Marcus, Alan O’Leary, Massimo Riva, Pasquale Verdicchio, and Christopher Wagstaff
Index 572