The A to Z of Italian Cinema (A to Z Guides)

✍ Scribed by Gino Moliterno

• Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 521
• Series: A to Z Guides 109
• Edition: 109
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Italian cinema is regarded as one of the great pillars of world cinema. Films like Ladri di biciclette (1948), La dolce vita (1960), and Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1988) attracted unprecedented international acclaim and a reputation, which only continue to grow. Italian cinema has produced such acting legends as Sophia Loren and Roberto Benigni, as well as world-renowned filmmakers like Federico Fellini, Sergio Leone, Mario Bava, Dario Argento, and Lina Wertmüller, the first woman to ever be nominated for the Best Director award.The A to Z of Italian Cinema provides a better understanding of the role Italian cinema has played in film history through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, appendixes, black-&-white photos, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on actors, actresses, movies, producers, organizations, awards, film credits, and terminology.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 12
Editor’s Foreword......Page 14
Preface......Page 16
Acknowledgments......Page 17
Reader’s Note......Page 18
Acronyms and Abbreviations......Page 20
Chronology......Page 22
Introduction......Page 36
The Dictionary......Page 56
Appendix: Winners at the Venice Festival and of the David di Donatello and Nastri d’argento......Page 402
Bibliography......Page 454
About the Author......Page 504
photospread......Page 506