Masters of Two Arts

Carlo Testa demonstrates that while pairings of famed directors and writers are commonplace in modern Italian cinema, the study of the interrelation between Italian cinema and European literature has been almost completely neglected in film scholarship.

Carlo Testa is Associate Professor in the Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

'In discussing numerous cases of cinematic adaptation of major works from various European literatures, Testa's book covers a subject left almost untouched by English scholarship in a book-length study that will certainly provide an important contribution to Italian, European, and cinema studies.'