Filmmaking by the book: Italian cinema and literary adaptation

Visconti's La terra trema : the typology of adaptation

Visconti's Leopard : the politics of adaptation

De Sica's Two women : realigning the gaze

De Sica's Garden of the Finzi-Continis : an escapist paradise lost

Pasolini's Gospel according to St. Matthew : the gaze of faith

Pasolini's Decameron : writing with bodies

The Tavianis' Padre padrone : the critical acquisition of codes

The Tavianis' Kàos : the poetics of adaptation

Fellini's Casanova : adaptation by self-projection

Fellini's La voce della luna : resisting postmodernism.