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Article: Howard Curle and Stephen Snyder, eds. Vittorio De Sica: Contemporary Perspectives.(Book Review)
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- Italian Culture
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- January 1, 2001
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Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. Pp. vii + 285.
Collections of essays are always difficult to review, particularly if one is constrained by limitations of space. It is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to do justice to every essay. And so, with apologies to the individual authors, one is reduced to making generalizations.
If ever there was a book whose time has come, it is this one, and not just because this is the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of the director (July 7, 1902). While this event has been largely ignored in the North America, in Italy it was celebrated by a week-long screening of all of his films on television and, ...