Johnny Stecchino with Roberto Benigni and Nicoletta Braschi Selected Bibliography The Higher Learning staff curate digital resource packages to complement and offer further context to the topics and themes discussed during the various Higher Learning events held at TIFF Bell Lightbox. These filmographies, bibliographies, and additional resources include works directly related to guest speakers’ work and careers, and provide additional inspirations and topics to consider; these materials are meant to serve as a jumping-off point for further research. Please refer to the event video to see how topics and themes relate to the Higher Learning event. Roberto Benigni Bullaro, Grace R. Beyond "Life Is Beautiful": Comedy and Tragedy in the Cinema of Roberto Benigni. Leicester: Troubador, 2005. Celli, Carlo. “Comedy and the Holocaust in Roberto Benigni’s Life Is Beautiful/La vita è bella.” in The Changing Face of Evil in Film and Television. Martin F. Norden (ed). Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. 145-158. ---. The Divine Comic: The Cinema of Roberto Benigni. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2001. Consolo, Salvatore. “The Watchful Mirror: Pinocchio’s Adventures Recreated by Roberto Benigni.” in Pinocchio, Puppets, and Modernity: The Mechanical Body. Katie Pizzi (ed). New York: Routledge, 2012. Gordon, Robert S. C. “Real Tanks and Toy Tanks: Playing Games with History in Roberto Benigni's La vita è bella/Life Is Beautiful.” Studies in European Cinema 2.1 (2005): 31-44. Kertzer, Adrienne. Like a Fable, Not a Pretty Picture: Holocaust Representation in Roberto Benigni and Anita Lobel. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2000. Kroll, Pamela L. “Games of Disappearance and Return: War and the Child in Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful.” Literature Film Quarterly 30.1 (2002): 29-45. Manai, Franco. “The movie Pinocchio by Roberto Benigni and its reception in the United States.” Studies in European Cinema 6.2 (2009): 153-263. Maron, Jeremy. “Theatrical Games and the Gift of Fable: Performance vs. Reality in Roberto Benigni’s Life Is Beautiful.” in Stages of Reality: Theatricality in Cinema. André Loiselle and Jeremy Maron (eds). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. 1 Johnny Stecchino with Roberto Benigni and Nicoletta Braschi Selected Bibliography Sorlin, Pierre. “Laughing Against Horror: Life Is Beautiful and Train of Life.” in Repicturing the Second World War: Representations in Film and Television. Michael Paris (ed). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Italian Cinema (General) Bertellini, Giorgio. The Cinema of Italy. London: Wallflower, 2004. Bondanella, Peter E. A History of Italian Cinema. New York: Continuum, 2009. ---. Italian Cinema: From Neorealism to the Present. New York: Continuum, 2001. Dalle Vacche, Angela. The Body in the Mirror: Shapes of History in Italian Cinema. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. G nsberg, Maggie. Italian Cinema: Gender and Genre. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Henry, Adalgisa S. Studying Italian Cinema. Leighton Buzzard: Auteur Publishing, 2013. Landy, Marcia. Italian Film. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Liehm, Mira. Passion and Defiance: Film in Italy from 1942 to the Present. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. Reich, Jacqueline. Beyond the Latin Lover: Marcello Mastroianni, Masculinity, and Italian Cinema. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2004. Restivo, Angelo. The Cinema of Economic Miracles: Visuality and Modernization in the Italian Art Film. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. Sitney, P. Adams. Vital Crises in Italian Cinema: Iconography, Stylistics, Politics. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. Sorlin, Pierre. Italian National Cinema 1896-1996. London: Routledge, 1996. Steimatsky, Noa. Italian Locations: Reinhabiting the Past in Postwar Cinema. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Wood, Mary P. Italian Cinema. Oxford: Berg, 2005. 2 Johnny Stecchino with Roberto Benigni and Nicoletta Braschi Selected Bibliography Italian Cinema (Neorealism) Ba in, Andr , and Bert Cardullo. New York: Continuum, 2011. Gottlieb, Sidney. Roberto Rossellini's Rome Open City. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Haaland, Torunn. Italian Neorealist Cinema. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. Marcus, Millicent J. Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. Rocchio, Vincent F. Cinema of Anxiety: A Psychoanalysis of Italian Neorealism. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. Schoonover, Karl. Brutal Vision: The Neorealist Body in Postwar Italian Cinema. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. Shiel, Mark. Italian Neo-Realism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City. London: Wallflower, 2006. Wagstaff, Christopher. Italian Neorealist Cinema: An Aesthetic Approach. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. ---. “The Place of Neorealism in Italian Cinema from 1945 to 1954.” in The Culture of Reconstruction: European Literature, Thought and Film, 1945-50. Nicholas Hewitt (ed). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1989. Italian Cinema (post-Neorealism) Barattoni, Luca. Italian Post-Neorealist Cinema. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. Gieri, Manuela. Contemporary Italian Filmmaking: Strategies of Subversion. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995. Giovacchini, Saverio, and Robert Sklar. Global Neorealism: The Transnational History of a Film Style. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2011. Hope, William. Italian Cinema: New Directions. Oxford: P. Lang, 2005. Luciano, Bernadette, and Susanna Scarparo. Reframing Italy: New Trends in Italian Women's Filmmaking. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2013. Marcus, Millicent J. After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. 3 Johnny Stecchino with Roberto Benigni and Nicoletta Braschi Selected Bibliography Morrone, Gaetana. New Landscapes in Contemporary Italian Cinema. Chapel Hill, NC: Annali d'Italianistica, 1999. Ruberto, Laura E, and Kristi M. Wilson. Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2007. Scala, Carmela B, and Antonio Rossini. New Trends in Italian Cinema: "New" Neorealism. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. Zambenedetti, Alberto. “Multiculturalism in New Italian Cinema.” Studies in European Cinema 3.2 (2006): 105-116. Federico Fellini Aldouby, Hava. Federico Fellini: Painting in Film, Painting on Film. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. Bondanella, Peter E. The Cinema of Federico Fellini. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. ---. The Films of Federico Fellini. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Burke, Frank, and Marguerite R. Waller. Federico Fellini: Contemporary Perspectives. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. Costello, Donald P. Fellini's Road. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1983. Fellini, Federico. Fellini on Fellini. New York: Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence, 1976. ---, and Bert Cardullo. Federico Fellini: Interviews. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2006. Kezich, Tullio. Federico Fellini: His Life and Work. New York: Faber and Faber, 2006. Quintana, Angel, and Matthew Clarke. Federico Fellini. Paris: Cahiers du Cinema Sarl, 2011. Stubbs, John C. Federico Fellini as Auteur: Seven Aspects of His Films. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2006. Plautus and Comedy Anderson, William S. Barbarian Play: Plautus' Roman Comedy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. 4 Johnny Stecchino with Roberto Benigni and Nicoletta Braschi Selected Bibliography Gunderson, Erik. Laughing Awry: Plautus and Tragicomedy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Moore, Timothy J. The Theater of Plautus: Playing to the Audience. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. Segal, Erich. Roman Laughter: The Comedy of Plautus. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968. Slater, Niall W. Plautus in Performance: The Theatre of the Mind. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985. Commedia Dell’arte Chaffee, Judith, and Olly Crick. The Routledge Companion to Commedia Dell'arte. New York: Routledge, 2015. Duchartre, Pierre-Louis, and Randolph T. Weaver. The Italian Comedy: The Improvisation, Scenarios, Lives, Attributes, Portraits, and Masks of the Illustrious Characters of the Commedia Dell'arte. New York: Dover Publications, 1966. Fava, Antonio. The Comic Mask in the Commedia Dell'arte: Actor Training, Improvisation, and the Poetics of Survival. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2007. Gordon, Mel. Lazzi: The Comic Routines of the Commedia Dell'arte. New York: Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1983. Grantham, Barry. Playing Commedia: A Training Guide to Commedia Techniques. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2000. Green, Martin, and John C. Swan. The Triumph of Pierrot: The Commedia Dell'arte and the Modern Imagination. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993. Rudlin, John. Commedia Dell'arte: An Actor's Handbook. London: Routledge, 1994. Physical Comedy Bilton, Alan. Silent Film Comedy and American Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Carroll, o l. Comedy Incarnate: Buster Keaton, Physical Humor, and Bodily Coping. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub, 2007. 5 Johnny Stecchino with Roberto Benigni and Nicoletta Braschi Selected Bibliography Clayton, Alex. The Body in Hollywood Slapstick. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co, 2007. Crafton, Donald. “Pie and Chase: Gag, Spectacle, and arrative in Slapstick Comedy.” Classical Hollywood Comedy. Kristine B. Karnick and Henry Jenkins (eds). New York: Routledge, 1995. Dale, Alan S. Comedy