Open Studies in European Cinema. Italian Cinema: Bibliography & Webliography

Bacon, Henry. 1998. Visconti: Explorations of Beauty and Decay. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Ben-Ghiat, Ruth. ‘The Facist War Trilogy’. Forgacs, David , Lutton, Sarah and Nowell-Smith Geoffrey.Eds. Roberto Rossellini: Magician of the Real . London: BFI

Bernadi, Sandro. 2000. ‘Rosselini’s Landscapes: Nature, Myth,History’. Forgacs, David , Lutton, Sarah and Nowell-Smith Geoffrey.Eds. Roberto Rossellini: Magician of the Real . London: BFI

Bertellini, Giorgio Ed. 2004. The Cinema of Italy. London: Wallflower Press

Bondanella, Peter. 2002. The Films of Federico Fellini. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-57573-7

Bondanella, Peter. 3rd edition. 2002. Italian Cinema: From Neorealism to the Present. New York and London: Continuum

Bondanella, Peter. ‘La Strada’. Bertellini, Giorgio. 2004. The Cinema of Italy. London: Wallflower Press

Brunette, Peter. ‘Deserto Rosso / Red Desert’. Bertellini, Giorgio. 2004. The Cinema of Italy. London: Wallflower Press

Celli, Carlo. 2001(a). The Divine Comic: The Cinema of Roberto Begnini. Lanham: Scarecrow Press

Celli , Carlo. ‘Ladri di Biciclette / The Bicycle Thieves’. Bertellini, Giorgio Ed. 2004. The Cinema of Italy. London: Wallflower Press

Carlo Celli and Marga Cottino-Jones. 2007. A New Guide to Italian Cinema. Palgrave Macmillan

Clark, Martin. 1984. Modern Italy 1871-1982. London: Longman

Curle, H & Snyder eds. (2000). Vittorio De Sica: Contemporary Perspectives

Forgacs, David. 2000. ‘Introduction: Rossellini and the Critics’. Forgacs, David , Lutton, Sarah and Nowell-Smith Geoffrey.Eds. Roberto Rossellini: Magician of the Real . London: BFI

Forgacs, David , Lutton, Sarah and Nowell-Smith Geoffrey.Eds. 2000. Roberto Rossellini: Magician of the Real. London: BFI

Gallhaer, Tag. 1998. The Adventures of Roberto Rossellini. New York: Da Capo Press

Hipkins Danielle. 'Francesca's Salvation or Damnation? Resisting recognition of the prostitute in Rossellini's Paisà (1946)', Studies in European Cinema, 3.2 (2006), 153-69.

Hipkins Danielle. "I don't want to die": Prostitution and Narrative Disruption in Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers', in Women in Italy 1946-1960, ed. by Penny Morris (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), pp. 193-210

Hudson, Anne. ‘Rocco E I Suoi Fratelli / Rocco and His Brothers. Bertellini, Giorgio. 2004. The Cinema of Italy. London: Wallflower Press

Indiana, Gary. 2000. Salo or The 120 Days of Sodom. London, BFI

Kemp, Philip. 2002. ‘The Son’s Room’. Sight and Sound. Vol 12 No 3 March p56

Kline, Jefferson T. ‘Il Conformista / The Conformist’. Bertellini, Giorgio Ed. 2004. The Cinema of Italy. London: Wallflower Press

Landy, Marcia. 2000. Italian Film. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Mancini, Elaine. 1985 Struggles of the Italian Film Industry during Fascism 1930-1935 Ann Arbor: UMI Press

Marcus, Millicent. 2002. After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press

Marcus, Millicent. 1993. Filmaking by the Book. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press

Marcus, Millicent. 1986. Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism. Princeton: Princeton University Press

Mazierska, Ewa & Rascaroli, Laura. 2004. The Cinema of Nanni Moretti. London: Wallflower Press

Morandini, Morando. 1997. ‘ Vittorio de Sica’ . Nowell-Smith Geoffrey Ed : Oxford History of World Cinema. Oxford : Oxford University Press.

Morandini, Morando. 1997. ‘Italy from Fascism to Neo-Realism’. Nowell-Smith Geoffrey Ed : Oxford History of World Cinema. Oxford : Oxford University Press.

Muscio, Giuliana. ‘Paisa / Paisan’. Bertellini, Giorgio Ed. 2004. The Cinema of Italy. London: Wallflower Press

Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey. 2003 3rd edition. Luchino Visconti. London: British Film Institute

Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey. 2000. ‘North and South, East and West’: Rossellini and Politics. Forgacs, David , Lutton, Sarah and Nowell-Smith Geoffrey.Eds. Roberto Rossellini: Magician of the Real . London: BFI

Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey. ‘Salvatore Giuliano’. Bertellini, Giorgio Ed. 2004. The Cinema of Italy. London: Wallflower Press

Rascaroli, Laura. ‘Dear Diary’. Bertellini, Giorgio Ed. 2004. The Cinema of Italy. London: Wallflower Press

Reich, Jaqueline. ‘Otto e Mezzo / 8 ½ ‘. Bertellini, Giorgio Ed. 2004. The Cinema of Italy. London: Wallflower Press

Reich, Jaqueline.2002. Re-viewing Fascism: Italian Cinema, 1922-1943. Bloomington: Indiana University Press  

Restivo, A. 2002. The Cinema of Economic Miracles: Visuality and Modernisation in the Italian Art Film. Durham and London: Duke University Press

Rhodes, John David Cinema Italia: Classic Italian Film Posters (review) Modernism/modernity - Volume 11, Number 2, April 2004, pp. 365-367

Rohdie, Sam. 1990. Antonioni. London: British Film Institute

Rohdie, Sam. 2002. Fellini Lexicon. London: BFI

Rohdie, Sam. 2000. ‘India’ Forgacs, David , Lutton, Sarah and Nowell-Smith Geoffrey.Eds. Roberto Rossellini: Magician of the Real. London: BFI

Rohdie, Sam. Rocco and his Brothers. London: BFI

Rossellini, Roberto. The War Trilogy. Open City. Paisan. Germany-Year Zero. Edited and with an Introduction By Stefano Roncoroni. Translated from the Italian By Judith Green. NY: Grossman, 1973.

Sitney, P. Adams. 1995. Vital Crises in Italian Cinema. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-77688-8

Shiel, Mark. 2006. Italian Neo Realism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City. London: Wallflower Press 

Sorlin, Pierre. 1996. Italian National Cinema. London: Routledge

Testa, C. 2002. Italian Cinema and Modern European Literatures, 1945-2000. Westport: Praeger

Testa. C. 2002. Master of Two Arts: Re-creation of European Literatures in Italian Cinema. Toronto: University of Toronto Press

Usai, Poalo, Cherchi. 1997. ‘ Italy: Spectacle and Melodrama’. Nowell-Smith Geoffrey Ed : Oxford History of World Cinema. Oxford : Oxford University Press.

Vitti, A. 1996. Giusseppe De Santis and Postwar Italian Cinema. Toronto: University of Toronto Press

Wagstaff, Christopher. 2000. ‘Rossellini and Neo-Realism’. Forgacs, David , Lutton, Sarah and Nowell-Smith Geoffrey.Eds. Roberto Rossellini: Magician of the Real . London: BFI

Wood, Mary. 2002. ‘ Bernado Bertolucci in context’: Tasker Yvonne: Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers . London : Routledge

Wood, Mary. 2006. ‘From Bust to Boom: Women and Representations of Prosperity in Italian Popular Cinema, 1946-1960’ in Penny Morris (ed): Women in Italy 1946-1960, (Palgrave, 2006)

Wood, Mary. 2004. ‘Pink Neorealism’ and the Rehearsal of Gender Roles in Italy, 1946-1955’ in Phil Powrie, Ann Davies & Bruce Babington (eds): The Trouble with Men: Masculinities in European and Hollywood Cinema, (Wallflower Press 2004).

Wood, Mary. 2007.  ‘Rosi’s Il caso Mattei: Making the Case for Conspiracy’ in Stephen Gundle & Lucia Rinaldi (eds): Assassination and Murder in Twentieth-Century Italy (Palgrave, 2007).

Wood, Mary. 2007. The Dark Side of the Mediterranean: Italian Noir’ in Andrew Spicer (ed): European Film Noir (Manchester University Press), 2007. 

Wood, Mary. 2000. ‘Woman of Rome: Anna Magnani’ in Ulrike Sieglohr (ed): Heroines Without Heroes: Female Identities in Post-War European Cinema 1945-1951, (Cassell, 2000)

Wood, Michael. 2003. ‘Death becomes Visconti’. Sight and Sound , May 2003 Volume 13 Issue 5 , pp 24-27

Wyke, M. 1997. Projecting the Past: Ancient Rome, Cinema and History. New York: Routledge

Webliography

A Journey through Italian Cinema by Alberto Pezotta on Senses of Cinema site.

Italian Studies Cinema section from the Western European Studies University of Illinois

A site on Roberto Rossellini from University of Pennsylvania by Karen Arnone. There is a bibliography however the entries don't appear to fully referenced. Nonetheless it seems useful with the proviso of being careful about its full academic credentials

A very fine bibliography and resources held by the University of California  at Berkley

A useful bibliography of Italian Cinema at Toronto University  

Michelangelo Antonioni Online Archive

Traumatic Encounters in Italian Film:Locating the Cinematic Unconscious by Fabio Vighi. A review by Luana Ciavola from Senses of Cinema site.

Interview with Marco Bellocchio

Twitch article on Bellocchio's Fists in the Pocket

Walkthrough to Italian Cinema. you will need flashplayer for this series of extracts from the University of Toronto 

A useful review of Landy, Marcia. 2000. Italian Film. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press by John Foot

UK Film courses on Italian Cinema 

University of Warwick: Italian with Film Studies

University of Leicester "Postwar Italian Cinema" 

University of Sussex. Cinema and Nation: Italian Cinema 

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