Early Italian cinema: The silent era ; The coming of sound and the fascist era
Italian neorealism: Masters of neorealism : Rossellini, De Sica, and Visconti ; Exploring the boundaries of neorealism ; The break with neorealism : the cinema of the reconstruction, Fellini's trilogies of character and grace, and the return of melodrama
The golden age of Italian cinema: The Italian "Peplum" : the sword and sandal epic ; Commedia all'italiana : comedy and social criticism ; Neorealism's legacy to a new generation, and the Italian political film ; The mateur auteurs : new dimensions in film narrative in Visconti, Antonioni, De Sica, and Fellini ; The spaghetti nightmare : horror films from the 1950s to the present ; A fistful of pasta : Sergio Leone and the spaghetti western ; Mystery, gore, and mayhem : the Italian giallo ; Myth, Marx, and Freud in Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bernardo Bertolucci ; The Poliziesco : Italian crime films from the 1970s to the present
Generational change in the contemporary Italian cinema: The old guard never surrenders : Italy's prewar auteurs in the 1980s and 1990s ; The third wave : a new generation of auteurs ; Italian cinema enters the third millennium.
