Author Archive for: ‘Luca Peretti’

Karl Schoonover, The Neorealist body in Postwar Italian cinema University of Minnesota Press, 2012 ISBN-13: 978-0816675555 US$25 (pb) 328pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press) The scholarship on Italian Neorealism is alive and well. The small group of films which typified post-World War II Italy still stimulates scholars in Film Studies and Italian Studies. Hence it is no surprise …

Giorgio Bertellini, Italian Silent Cinema: A Reader John Libbey Publishing, 2013 ISBN: 9780-86196-670-7 US$40 (pb) 401pp (Review copy supplied by John Libbey Publishing) Italian Silent Cinema: A Reader, edited by Giorgio Bertellini (Associate Professor at the University of Michigan), is a complex, ample and exhaustive volume, composed of thirty articles by Italian and non-Italian scholars, with around 150 images, three …