Millicent Marcus

Biographic Data

ID687938
NAMEMillicent Marcus
GIVEN NAMESMillicent
FAMILY NAMEMarcus
SIGNATUREMARCUS M
AFFILIATIONSYale University
ORCID0000-0002-4351-2060
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS65
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT64
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Cinema is the Strongest Weapon: Race-Making and Resistance in Fascist Italy

    Millicent MarcusARTICLEItalian Culture2025

  • Radioactive Readings: Maria Anna Mariani's Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age: A Poetics of the Bystander

    Millicent MarcusARTICLEItalica2024

    While the association of Italy with nukes in the title of this remarkable book might strike us as far-fetched, Anna Mariani's work makes an urgent and convincing claim for their interdependence. Italy had, and still has, no nuclear arsenal of its own, but it houses hundreds of American bombs and is thereby tethered to global strategies of deterrence based on the threat of mutual mass destruction. What is more, the physicists who pioneered nuclear…

  • Pina's Pregnancy, Traumatic Realism, and the After-Life of Open City

    Millicent MarcusARTICLEItalica2023

    This study attempts to account for the haunting power and the enduring legacy of the most wrenching shot-sequence in Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City. I am speaking of the scene in which Pina is felled by Nazi gun fire as she chases after the truck carrying Francesco and his comrades seized during the raid on their tenement building in Rome's Prenestino neighborhood. This scene, whose power to shock and disrupt remains unabated over the years…

  • Italian Film in the Present Tense

    Millicent MarcusBOOKItalian Film in the Present Tense2022

    For observers of the European film scene, Federico Fellini's death in 1993 came to stand for the demise of Italian cinema as a whole. Exploring an eclectic sampling of works from the new millennium, Italian Film in the Present Tense confronts this narrative of decline with strong evidence to the contrary. Millicent Marcus highlights Italian cinema's new sources of industrial strength, its re-placement of the Rome-centred studio system with region…

  • Investigating Perceptions of Teachers and School Nurses on Child and Adolescent Oral Health in Los Angeles County

    Open AccessC A Maida, Millicent Marcus et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    This study reports the results of focus groups with school nurses and teachers from elementary, middle, and high schools to explore their perceptions of child and adolescent oral health. Participants included 14 school nurses and 15 teachers (83% female; 31% Hispanic; 21% White; 21% Asian; 14% African American; and 13% Others). Respondents were recruited from Los Angeles County schools and scheduled by school level for six one-hour focus groups u…

  • Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism

    Millicent MarcusBOOKItalian Film in the Light of…2020

  • Reflections on a Career

    Beatrice Collina, Fred L Gardaphe et al.ARTICLEItalian Culture2020

    Che cosa e l’amicizia femminile per le donne nate intorno alla seconda meta del Novecento? Qual e la sua relazione col lavoro di ricerca in ambito storico e letterario? Qualcosa di profondamente nu

  • Due icone della Shoah”: Primo Levi, Anne Frank, and the “peccato della finzione”

    Millicent MarcusARTICLEItalica2019

    In Primo Levi e Anna Frank: tra testimonianza e letteratura, Maria Anna Mariani undertakes a doubly formidable challenge: to break new ground in the scholarship on these exhaustively studied “icone della Shoah;” and to do so by using a juxtapositional strategy without lapsing into a schematic and reductive drawing of comparisons between the two. Instead, Mariani's book is shaped by the deeper logic announced in its subtitle. What interests this a…

  • Short form development for oral health patient-reported outcome evaluation in children and adolescents

    Open AccessHonghu Liu, Ron D Hays et al.ARTICLEQuality of Life Research2018

  • Assessing Bondanella’s Impact on the Field: A First-Person Account

    Millicent MarcusARTICLEThe Italianist2018

  • Child and adolescent perceptions of oral health over the life course

    Open AccessC A Maida, Millicent Marcus et al.ARTICLEQuality of Life Research2015

  • Assessing the contribution of the dental care delivery system to oral health care disparities

    Open AccessNadereh Pourat, Ronald Andersen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Health Dentistry2014

    Objectives Existing studies of disparities in access to oral health care for underserved populations often focus on supply measures such as number of dentists. This approach overlooks the importance of other aspects of the dental care delivery system, such as personal and practice characteristics of dentists, that determine the capacity to provide care. This study aims to assess the role of such characteristics in access to care of underserved po…

  • Socio-behavioral predictors of self-reported oral health-related quality of life

    Open AccessC A Maida, Millicent Marcus et al.ARTICLEQuality of Life Research2012

  • Paradise lost? Cinema Paradiso and the challenge of the DVD commentary

    Millicent MarcusARTICLEThe Italianist2012

    (2012). Paradise lost? Cinema Paradiso and the challenge of the DVD commentary. The Italianist: Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 296-299

  • Paradise lost? Cinema Paradiso and the challenge of the DVD commentary

    Millicent MarcusARTICLEThe Italianist2012

  • The Seriousness of Play in Boccaccio’s Decameron

    Millicent MarcusARTICLEModern Language Notes2012

    The Seriousness of Play in Boccaccio’s Decameron Millicent Marcus (bio) Rereading The World at Play in Boccaccio’s Decameron after twenty-three years was not the journey of nostalgia and regret for lost youth that I feared it would be. Nor was the laudatio temporis acti motif at the top of the list of topoi that assailed me as I pored over the pages of that formative and formidable book. Instead, in reconnecting with Giuseppe Mazzotta’s work, I f…

  • New Reflections on Primo Levi: Before and after Auschwitz

    Open AccessRisa Sodi, Millicent MarcusBOOKNew Reflections on Primo Levi2011

    This book presents a baker's dozen of interpretative keys to Levi's output and thought. It deepens our understanding of common themes in Levi studies (memory and witness) while exploring unusual and r

  • Return of the referent: Italian cinema for the new millennium

    Open AccessMillicent MarcusARTICLESemiotica2011

    Focusing with special intensity on scenes that feature still photographs in the Italian films Blow-Up, Three Brothers, and The One Hundred Steps, this paper traces a progressive return to the neorealist call for a cinema of truth-telling on the threshold on the new millennium

  • Sergio Parussa (2008) Writing as Freedom, Writing as Testimony: Four Italian Writers and Judaism

    Millicent MarcusARTICLEJournal of Modern Italian Studies2010

  • Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz

    Millicent MarcusBOOKItalian Film in the Shadow of…2009

    The last decade has witnessed an outpouring of Italian films that deal with Fascism, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. This would appear to mark a distinct change from the postwar reluctance to represent such an infamous history. Roberto Benigni’s popular Life is Beautiful (1997) is an obvious example, but there have been a number of other works that have not been exported that also attest to a distinct tendency within Italian domestic production …

  • Freccero on Blow-Up: Toward a Macro-Vision of Italian Film

    Millicent MarcusARTICLEModern Language Notes2009

    Freccero on Blow-Up:Toward a Macro-Vision of Italian Film Millicent Marcus (bio) I can pin-point the exact moment of my conversion to Italian cinema studies. It happened in Spring 1970 when Freccero delivered the lecture that would form the basis of his ground-breaking essay "Blow-Up: From the Word to the Image." Though I could never have begun to fathom the career-defining effects of this lecture at the time, on some level I sensed that radicall…

  • A Coming-Of-Age-Story: Some Thoughts on the Rise of Italian Film Studies in the United States

    Millicent MarcusARTICLEItalian Studies2008

  • A Coming-Of-Age-Story: Some Thoughts on the Rise of Italian Film Studies in the United States

    Millicent MarcusARTICLEItalian Studies2008

  • Characteristics of Dentists Providing Dental Care to Publicly Insured Patients

    Open AccessNadereh Pourat, Dylan H Roby et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Health Dentistry2007

    Dentists who care for publicly insured patients appear to have practices that are different from those who do not, in terms of delivery of patient care and practice structure. Such differences have implications for the access to and quality of dental health care of publicly insured patients. The success of public programs and policies aimed at ensuring access to dental care depends on ability and willingness of dentists to accommodate public pati…

  • A Longitudinal Analysis of Unmet Need for Oral Treatment in a National Sample of Medical HIV Patients

    Millicent Marcus, Marvin Marcus et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2005References: 11

    This longitudinal study examines perceived unmet dental need in a nationally representative probability sample of HIV-infected persons in medical care. A logistic regression analysis modeled the relationship between unmet need and explanatory variables. We estimate that 40% of HIV/AIDS patients report an unmet need associated with being male, being unemployed, injecting drugs, being heterosexual, lacking dental insurance, and having less educatio…