A journey to the Italian cinema in the company of its major film makers and theorists. Rossellini, Visconti, Pasolini and Zavattini are given a new focus that overturns the usual views and perspectives. It offers new and exciting interpretations.

Stefania Parigi is Professor of the History of the Italian Cinema in the Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia at the Università degli Studi Roma Tre

Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Preface
Introduction
1. Cesare Zavattini: neorealism
2. *Paisà*: light
3. *La Terra Trema*: language
4. *The Leopard*: settings
5. *Vaghe Stell dell'Orse ...*: remembrances
6. Pasolini: heaven and earth
7. From *Il Decameron* to *Salò*: rewriting
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Index