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Article: Howard Curle and Stephen Snyder. Vittorio De Sica: Contemporary Perspectives.(Book review)
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- Annali d'Italianistica
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- January 1, 2001
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Howard Curle and Stephen Snyder. Vittorio De Sica: Contemporary Perspectives. University of Toronto Press, 2000. Pp. 285.
Vittorio De Sica: Contemporary Perspectives contains a selection of interviews with De Sica, a collection of twenty-two essays, including one by Cesare Zavattini, and a filmography. Also furnished are sixteen quality prints, chronologically ranging from De Sica's career as an actor in Men Are Such Rascals (1932) to his work as a director in The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970). Editors Howard Curle and Stephen Snyder explain the impetus behind the volume, "De Sica's work, which once formed the cutting edge of theory-influenced cinema, has ...