A History of Italian Cinema

By Peter Bondanella

A History of Italian Cinema is the only comprehensive and up-to-date book on the subject available anywhere, in any language. It features new coverage from 1989 to the present including the Italian horror-film genre, Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful), Bernardo Bertolucci (Stealing Beauty), Franco Zeffirelli (Tea with Mussolini), Michael Radford (The Postman Il postino]), Gabriele Salvatores (Mediterraneo), Maurizio Nichetti (The Bicycle Thief), Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso, The Starmaker), and much more. This book has been extensively revised and updated, to include all-new notes, bibliography, video and DVD information.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082641785X
• ISBN13: 9780826417855
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 684 Pages
• Weight: 2.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"