[Carlo Celli,Marga Cottino Jones]A New Guide To Italian Cinema(pdf){Zzzzz}

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.

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (January 9, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1403975655
ISBN-13: 978-1403975652

Editorial Reviews
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"This study is a rich synthesis of the history of Italian Cinema from its birth to the present, with a useful chronological historical table of main events which is enhanced by short cultural synopses. Celli and Cottino-Jones also add to the well known history of major Italian films with anecdotes and short but significant biographies and historical references, which connect the filmmakers' lives with concurrent events. This book will be adopted by many educators since it is a valuable tool for scholars, students, and researchers, offering a great deal of new information on many films and often original plot interpretations."--Antonio Vitti, Wake Forest University

About the Author
Carlo Celli attended the Università of Firenze and Bologna, received a B.A. from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. from UCLA in 1993 under the direction of Marga Cottino-Jones. He is the author numerous publications on Italian literature and film including The Divine Comic: The Cinema of Roberto Benigni (2001) and Gillo Pontecorvo from Resistance to Terrorism (2005). He is currently Associate Professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Marga Cottino-Jones received a laurea degree from the Università of Torino and a Ph.D. in Romance Languages from the University of Washington in Seattle. She taught at the Department of Italian at UCLA from 1961 to 1998. She is recognized as one of the leading voices in Italian Studies in the United States for her influential publications on Italian literature, theory and film studies including Order from Chaos in Boccaccio's Decameron; Il Dir Novellando:The Renaissance Novella; A Student's Guide to Italian Cinema (1983, 1993) and Michelangelo Antonioni, The architecture of vision : writings and interviews on Cinema (1996).

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

A decent guide to Italian cinema with some errors
By J. Will on May 15, 2009
I read this entire book because I had to do a project about Italian cinema. I noticed that there were a lot of spelling errors. example: spelling Cladia Cardinale's name as Claudio Cardinale and Marcello Mastroianni's name at least once as Marcello Matroianni. Also, the author of the book credits Bernardo Bertolucci for directing the film Bel Canto. Bertolucci has never made a film called Bel Canto. In the last chapter there is less analizing of films and more listing of films in the past 10 years. The book does a good job of connecting Italian cinema to the Italian culture. All in all, it's a decent guide to Italin cinema when you just want to know the basics of what Italian cinema is about.