TY - BOOK AU - Bondanella,Peter E. TI - Italian cinema: from Neorealism to the present SN - 082640426X (pbk.) AV - PN 1993.5 B711i 1990 U1 - 791.43 PY - 1990/// CY - New York PB - Continuum KW - Motion pictures KW - Italy KW - History KW - Cine italiano KW - Cine KW - Producción y dirección KW - Italia KW - Historia y crítica N1 - "A Frederick Ungar book."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 422-478) and index; Background : the silent era and the Fascist period -- The masters of neorealism : Rossellini, De Sica, and Visconti -- Exploring the boundaries of neorealism -- The break with neorealism : Rossellini in transition, early Antonioni and Fellini -- A decisive decade : commedia all'italiana, neorealism's legacy, and a new generation -- The mature auteurs : new dimensions in film narrative with Visconti, Antonioni, and Fellini -- A fistful of pasta : Sergio Leone and the spaghetti western -- Myth and Marx : Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bernardo Bertolucci -- Politics and ideology in the contemporary Italian cinema -- The contemporary scene and new Italian comedy -- Italian cinema in the 1980s ER -