Accessible, comprehensive, and heavily illustrated throughout, this is an essential purchase for any fan of Italian film.

The book has been extensively revised and updated, including all-new notes, bibliography, plus videocassette and DVD information.

"This book is a celebration of nearly a century of images of Italians in American motion pictures and their contribution to popular culture.

Covers the entire history of Italian literature, with entries ranging from the 13th century to the present and from Dante and Boccaccio to Umberto Eco.

Throughout the book Bondanella draws on a new archive of several dozen manuscripts, obtained from Fellini and his scriptwriters.

The Cassell Dictionary of Italian Literature includes some 400 entries on major and minor Italian writers from the twelfth century to the present day; on Italian metrics and poetic forms or genres; and on literary or critical schools, ...

This work includes sections covering the silent era, fascist cinema, horror and epic genres as well as coverage from 1989 onwards.

The edition also contains an introduction which analyzes the work's place in film history and within the so-called "crisis of neo-realism," and provides for the first time in English a number of articles on the film's production.

Examines the cinematic vision of the renowned Italian filmmaker.