Vittorio De Sica contemporary perspectives (University of Toronto Press, 2000)
Includes bibliographical references and filmography
De Sica on De Sica -- Some ideas on the cinema / Cesare Zavattini -- De Sica : metteur en scène / André Bazin -- Umberto D. and realism / Gilberto Perez -- Beyond the movement image / Gilles Deleuze -- Ideological continuity and cultural coherence / Philip V. Cannistraro -- Remembrance of things past / Marcia Landy -- On a train to the kingdom of Earth : watching De Sica's children / George Toles -- Shoeshine / Pauline Kael -- The art of Shoeshine / Bert Cardullo -- Holding hands with a bicycle thief / Mark West -- Bicycle thieves : a re-reading / Frank P. Tomasulo -- Neorealist aesthetics and the fantastic : the machine to kill bad people and Miracle in Milan / Peter Bondanella -- Appendix : Reflections on Miracle in Milan / Claude Roy -- Miracle in Milan : some psychoanalytic notes on a movie / Alexander Grinstein -- Pius Aeneas and Totò, il buono : the founding myth of the divine city / Hart Wegner -- Umberto D. : Vittorio De Sica's 'super'-naturalism / Vernon Young -- The subversive potential of the pseudo-iterative / Marsha Kinder -- A home in the ditch of Saint Agnes : De Sica's The roof / Howard Curle -- The case of De Sica / James Price -- Hiding in the light : De Sica's work in the 1960s / Stephen Snyder -- In love and war : Vittorio De Sica's Two women / Faye McIntyre -- De Sica's Garden of the Finzi-Continis : an escapist Paradise lost / Millicent Marcus -- The magic mountain / Colin Westerbeck