The anti-Mafia martyr genre in Italian film

Guest: 
Millicent Marcus, Professor of Italian Language and Literature
October 28, 2015

Millicent Marcus talks about the anti-Mafia martyr genre in Italian film.

Professor Marcus specializes in Italian culture from the interdisciplinary perspectives of literature, history, and film. She is the author of An Allegory of Form: Literary Self-Consciousness in the Decameron, Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism, Filmmaking by the Book: Italian Cinema and Literary Adaptation, After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age, and Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz, as well as journal articles and encyclopedia entries.

Learn more about Millicent Marcus.