CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. PART I: NEOREALISM AND NATION
5. 1.Writing the National Cinema 1
6. 2. Neorealism and the Stain 22
7. PART II: THE NATION, THE BODY, AND PASOLINI
8. 3. Tropes of Modernization: The Bandit and the Road 45
9. 4. Spatial Transformations: Mapping the New Italy 61
10. 5. Pasolini and the Limits of Resistance 77
11. PART III: ANTONIONI AND THE POSTMODERN SUBLIME
12. 6. The Object Antonioni 95
13. 7. The Sublime and the Disaster 124
14. PART IV: BOUNDARIES
15. 8. The Erotics of the Periphery 147
16. Notes 175
17. Bibliography 195
18. Index 203