A portrait of Professor Millicent Marcus, standing in front of a wallpapered wall and wearing a black dress. She is smiling at the camera.

Millicent Marcus

Sarai Ribicoff Professor of Italian Studies
Director of Graduate Studies

Millicent Marcus (Ph.D. Yale, 1974) 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, (Stanford French and Italian Studies, l979), Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism (Princeton, l986), Filmmaking by the Book: Italian Cinema and Literary Adaptation (Johns Hopkins, l993), After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age (Johns Hopkins, 2002), and Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz (University of Toronto, 2007), as well as journal articles and encyclopedia entries on her fields of interest. Because literacy in the 21st century must be broadened to include the mass media as well as the written text, she brings a cultural studies approach to her teaching and research.

Publications

Italian Film in the Present Tense
University of Toronto Press
Copyright Date: 2023

Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz
University of Toronto Press
Copyright Date: 2007

After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
Johns Hopkins University Press
Copyright Date: 2002

Filmmaking by the Book: Italian Cinema and Literary Adaptation
The Johns Hopkins University Press 
Copyright Date: 1992

Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism
Princeton University Press
Copyright Date: 1987

An Allegory of Form: Literary Self-Consciousness in the ‘Decameron’
Stanford French and Italian Studies 
Copyright Date: 1979

Contact Info

millicent.marcus@yale.edu

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