Product Description: Style. Beauty. Passion. Vision.These are just a few of the words often used to describe the films of the single most celebrated director in Italy, and one of the most important directors the world has ever known—Federico Fellini. Fifty years since their initial releases, his films of the 1960s still inspire, shock, and delight...read more

Product Description: Sergio Leone is a singular figure among Italian filmmakers of the postwar years; his films grow in reputation year after year. Groundbreaking westerns such as his Dollars trilogy and the authoritative Once upon a Time in the West have made Leone one of the most popular and influential directors in world cinema...read more

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Marcia Landy examines the history of Italian celebrity culture and ponders the changing qualities of stardom in the 20th and 21st centuries. She considers the historical conditions for the rise of stardom in the context of various media, from the silent era to contemporary media, tracking how stardom shapes national and international identities. The phenomenon of the diva in the early European cinema, the invention of new stars in the sound cinema, the postwar impact on stardom through the introduction of changing forms of narration in popular genres, and the contributions to the changing faces of stardom through the films and the personas of such auteurs as Rosselini, Visconti, Fellini, and Pasolini are examined in Stardom, Italian Style. Landy's genealogy of Italian star images identifies their connections to social history, landscape and geography, conceptions of femininity and masculinity, the physical and virtual body, regionalism, technology, and leisure.

An analysis of the eminent Italian filmmaker's life and work, written by a close confidante and the film critic for Corriere della Sera, profiles Fellini as an impassioned lover whose achievements embodied modern sensibilities and eschewed traditional themes, in a portrait that places his work against a backdrop of mid-twentieth-century Italy's fascist regime.

Product Description: Roberto Rossellini, famous Italian film director and icon of neorealism, would have been one hundred years old on May 8, 2006. Isabella Rossellini, daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini, and herself a film star, bestselling author and celebrated photo model, has created two very special homages to her father on the centenary of his birth: a short film entitled My Dad is 100 Years Old, directed by Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin as director—and this many-voiced, richly illustrated book of remembrance...read more

Drawing on numerous interviews with DeLaurentiis, this sweeping biography chronicles the life and career of the legendary filmmaker, from his early days in Italy through his six-decade career in cinema, capturing the filmmaker at work, his transformative role in the world of entertainment, and his relationships with such luminaries as Martin Scorsese, Roberto Rossellini, and others. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: Book by Alpert, Hollis

Traces the career of the Italian movie maker, describes his controversial private life, and discusses his major films (view table of contents)

An incisive portrait of the Italian cinematic and literary genius traces the career of Pier Paolo Pasolini from his childhood, through his development as an artist, to his 1975 murder--allegedly at the hands of a young male prostitute

Product Description: One of the founding fathers of the Neo-realist movement and a Communist dedicated to populist filmmaking, Guiseppe De Santis (b. 1917) has been a significant force in Italian cinema. In spite of his crucial contribution De Santis has received little critical recognition and his work has been largely excluded from the canon of traditional cinematic teaching...read more

The author of The Hollywood Exiles presents the first biography of the legendary filmmaker since his 1992 death, elucidating a complex, difficult man whose fantasy film world often seemed truer than real life.

The author recounts his troubled childhood, experiences as an antiNazi partisan, and work as a director of operas, plays, and films

Recounts the life of the Italian theater, opera, and film director and discusses his approach to film making