This supplementary text for elementary to intermediate courses in Italian is structured around stimulating discussions of ten contemporary Italian films, among them Cinema Paradiso, La vita e bella, Mediterraneo, and Il postino. With a chapter devoted to each movie, the book effectively fosters a deeper understanding of both Italian language and culture, and it is adaptable for any level of language instruction.
Italian Through Film features:
-- Films that are easily available from school video libraries or from video stores;
-- Pre-viewing, viewing, and...

Animals have always understood that mankind is not fully at home in the world. Bestiaries, hoping to teach, send out warnings. This one, of course, aims at doing the same.

These animals speak directly to us, the human readers, stir us up with the denunciation of our destruction of the environment, move us with their resemblance to us and humble us with their superior wisdom and self-mockery.