A guide to the glorious works and filmmakers who make the world laugh with them. It is suitable for those lovers of enduring, wry, over-the-top, side-splitting humor on film.

Rémi Fournier Lanzoni's Comedy Italian Style is the first book to cover the genre "officially" known as commedia all'italiana comprehensively in English. For some, commedia all'italiana serves as a national cinematographic patrimony, and for others, it pr

The subject of this book is one of the most important in Italian film history. Commedia all'italiana was a series of comedy films based on farse that dealt with current events, not evasive, but with their bold humor very pointed about societal difficulties.   --Mario Monicelli, director of The Great War (La grande guerra) and Big Deal on Madonna Street (I soliti ignoti).