"A History of Italian Cinema" is the only comprehensive and up-to-date book on the subject available anywhere, in any language. It features new coverage from 1989 to the present including the Italian horror-film genre, Roberto Benigni ("Life Is Beautiful"), Bernardo Bertolucci ("Stealing Beauty"), Franco Zeffirelli ("Tea with Mussolini"), Michael Radford ("The Postman" ["Il postino"]), Gabriele Salvatores ("Mediterraneo"), Maurizio Nichetti ("The Bicycle Thief"), Giuseppe Tornatore ("Cinema Paradiso", "The Starmaker"), and much more. This book has been extensively revised and updated, to include all-new notes, bibliography, video and DVD information.