Product Description: The end of the Second World War saw the emergence of neorealist film in Italy. In Italian Neorealist Cinema, Christopher Wagstaff analyses three neorealist films that have had significant influence on filmmakers around the world. Wagstaff treats these films as assemblies of sounds and images rather than as representations of historical reality...read more

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Product Description: Many of Italy's current problems can be traced back to the years 1948-1958, one of the most interesting but least-studied periods of recent Italian history. This was a decade in which the main cultural and political parameters of contemporary Italy were laid down...read more

Product Description: Mary Butts's writings are now back in print amidst astonishment at the long neglect of a central figure of the modernist era. Who was this writer of such penetrating intelligence and gifted style, who pioneered ecological and spiritual consciousness? In A Sacred Quest Christopher Wagstaff has gathered essays from writers who knew Mary Butts or her work contemporaneously, together with current appraisals by celebrated writers...read more