I. INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction ( Joseph Luzzi, Bard College, USA) II. GLOSSARY 2 Dates and Terms ( Mattia Acetoso, Boston College, USA) III. THEORY AND PRACTICE 3 Silent Film ( Antonio Costa, University of Venice (IUAV), Italy) 4 Futurism and Film ( Michael Syrimis, Tulane University, USA) 5 Fascist Cinema (Vittorio Zigarrio, University of Rome III, Italy) 6 Neorealism ( Giuliana Minghelli, McGill University, Canada) 7 Orphaned Generation ( Alessia Ricciardi, Northwestern University, USA) 8 Italian Cinema New Millennium ( Millicent Marcus, Yale University, USA ) 9 Femme Fatale ( Stephen Gundle, University of Warwick, UK ) 10 Italian Women Directors ( Dana Renga, Ohio State University, USA ) 11 Comedy, Italian Style ( Marcia Landy, University of Pittsburgh, USA ) 12 The "Giallo" ( Elena Past, Wayne State University, USA ) 13 Italian Film Theory ( Gabriele Pedullà, University of Rome III, Italy ) 14 Film and Photography ( Sarah Carey, Independent Scholar ) 15 Film and Music ( Daniela Bini, University of Texas, Austin, USA ) 16 Film and TV ( Stefano Baschiera, Queens University, Belfast, Ireland ) 17 Popular Cinema ( Catherine O'Rawe, University of Bristol, UK ) 18 Film and Neuroscience ( Michele Guerra, University of Parma, Italy ) 19 Italian Cinema Digital Age ( Christan Uva, University of Rome III, Italy ) 20 Future of the Past ( Paola Bonifazio, University of Texas, Austin, USA ) 21 Documentary ( Luca Caminati/Marco Sasso, Concordia University, Canada ) 22 Italian Cinema/World Cinema ( Kristi Wilson, Soka University of America, USA, and Laura Ruberto, Berkeley City College, USA ) IV. FILMS IN FOCUS 23 de Liguoro, Inferno ( John Welle, Notre Dame University, USA ) 24 Pastrone, Cabiria ( Robert Rushing, University of Illinois, USA ) 25 De Santis, Bitter Rice ( Charles Leavitt, University of Reading, UK ) 26 Rossellini, Stromboli ( Anna Botta, Smith College, USA ) 27 Visconti, Senso ( Brendan Hennessy, UCLA, USA ) 28 Argento, Suspiria ( Ellen Nerenberg, Wesleyan University, USA ) 29 Antonioni, L'Avventura ( John David Rhodes, Cambridge University, UK ) 30 Pasolini, Teorema ( Robert Gordon, Cambridge University, UK ) 31 Fellini, La Strada ( Federico Pacchioni, Chapman University, USA ) 32 Bertolucci, Conformist ( Michael Kramer, SUNY Purchase, USA ) 33 Leone, Once upon Time in the West ( Mary Ann Carolan, Fairfield University, USA ) 34 Wertmuller, Love and Anarchy ( Bernadette Luciano, University of Auckland, New Zealand ) 35 Giordana, The Best of Youth ( Alan O'Leary, University of Leeds, UK ) 36 Sorrentino, Il Divo ( Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Dickinson College, USA ) V. BEHIND THE SCENES 37 Spaces of Cinema ( Allison Cooper, Bowdoin College, USA ) 38 Sound and Soundtrack ( Monica Facchini, Colgate University, USA ) 39 Cinematography ( Giovanna F. Lerner, Franklin & Marshall College, USA ) 40 Screenwriters ( Cosetta Guadenzi, University of Memphis, USA ).