Millicent Marcus

Biography

Millicent Marcus is Professor of Italian and Film studies at Yale University.  Her specializations include medieval literature, Italian cinema, interrelationships between literature and film, and representations of the Holocaust in post-war Italian culture.  Within the field of cinema studies, she is the author of Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism (l986), Filmmaking by the Book: Italian Cinema and Literary Adaptation (l993) and After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age (2002), and Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz (2007). She has also published numerous articles on Italian film, and is currently studying contemporary Italian cinema within the theoretical framework of “post-realism.”