Making theater in Italy / Joseph Farrell -- Literature and society, 1950-2000 / Peter Hainsworth -- Rallying points : literary and cultural journals, 1945 to the present / Charles Klopp -- Major trends in Italian poetry : from the post-war years to the present / John Picchione -- Coming of age : an overview of women's writing in Italy in the last half century / Rinaldina Russell -- Italian postmodern : a comparative perspective / Joseph Francese -- Pulp fiction, "Italian style" / Ellen Nerenberg -- Italian cinema from the 1950s to the present / Peter Bondanella.