Italian Cinema

 

Italian Cinema: From Neorealism to the Present by Peter E. Bondanella Paperback from Continuum

Italian Film Posters by Dave Kehr Hardcover from Museum of Modern Art, New York

Italian National Cinema 1896-1996 (National Cinemas) by Pierre Sorlin Paperback from Routledge

Filmmaking by the Book: Italian Cinema and Literary Adaptation by Millicent Joy Marcus Paperback from Johns Hopkins Univ Pr 1992

The Montesi Scandal: The Death of Wilma Montesi and the Birth of the Paparazzi in Fellini's Rome by Karen Pinkus Synopsis Early on a windy morning in April 1953, the body of a young woman washed up on a beach outside of Rome. Her name was Wilma Montesi, and, as the papers reported, she had left her home in the city centre a day earlier, alone. The police called her death an accidental drowning. But the public was not convinced. In the cafes around the Via Veneto, people began to speak - of the son of a powerful politician, lavish parties, movie stars, orgies, drugs. How this news item of everyday life exploded into one of the greatest scandals of a modern democracy is the story Karen Pinkus tells in "The Montesi Scandal". Wilma's death brought to the surface every simmering element of Italian culture: bitter aspiring actresses, corrupt politicians, nervous Jesuits in sunglasses, jaded princes. Italians of all types lined up to testify in the death of the middle-class carpenter's daughter. They sold their stories to the tabloids, only to retract them. They posed for pictures while pretending to shun the spotlight. Pinkus takes us through Rome in the 1950s, linking Wilma's death to the beginnings of the "dolce vita" and following the first paparazzi on their scooters as they shoot the protagonists. More than a meditation of the intricate ties among cinema, paparazzo photography and Italian life, "The Montesi Scandal" narrates the story and its characters as the notes for an unrealized film, brilliant in form and conception. As the reader discovers, the story of Wilma Montesi cannot be understood except as a film -but, ironically, one that seems impossible to produce.  Hardcover from University of Chicago Press (Trd)

Re-viewing Fascism: Italian Cinema, 1922-1943 by Jacqueline Reich, Piero Garofalo Paperback from Indiana University Press

Beyond the Latin Lover: Marcello Mastroianni, Masculinity, and Italian Cinema
by Jacqueline Reich
Paperback from Indiana University Press

 

The Cinema of Economic Miracles: Visuality and Modernization in the Italian Art Film (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by Angelo Restivo Paperback from Duke Univ Pr (Txt)

Italian Filmmakers: Self Portraits: A Selection of Interviews by Jean Lia Gili, Sandra E. Tokunaga, Jean A. Gili Hardcover from Gremese Editore

Cinema Italian Style by Silvia Bizio, Claudia Laffranchi Paperback from Gremese Editore

Italian Horror Film Directors by Louis Paul, Antonella Fulci, Jess Franco Hardcover from McFarland & Company

The Italian cinema by Pierre Leprohon Unknown Binding from Secker and Warburg Out of Print - Try Used Books

Masters of Two Arts: Re-Creation of European Literatures in Italian Cinema (Toronto Italian Studies) by Carlo Testa Hardcover from Univ of Toronto Pr Special Order

The Folklore of Consensus: Theatricality in the Italian Cinema, 1930-1943 by Marcia Landy Hardcover from State Univ of New York Pr Special Order

Cinema of Anxiety : A Psychoanalysis of Italian Neorealism by Vincent F. Rocchio Paperback from Univ of Texas Press

Hollywood Italians: Dagos, Palookas, Romeos, Wise Guys, and Sopranos by Peter E. Bondanella Hardcover from Continuum Pub Group

Italian Cinema and Modern European Literatures: 1945-2000 by Carlo Testa Hardcover from Praeger Publishers Special Order

 
 
 

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