Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introducing the Filmic Foodscape of the Boom 1
6. Chapter One Totò and the Continuity of Hunger 21
7. Chapter Two From Pizzaiola to Phenom: Sophia Loren, the Nexus of Networks 56
8. Chapter Three “Feels Like Home”: Elevation and Containment in the Patriarchal City 88
9. Chapter Four Crises and Revolutions in the Work of Pasolini 120
10. Chapter Five La grande abbuffata, or the Reawakening at the End of the World 163
11. Chapter Five La grande abbuffata, or the Reawakening at the End of the World 199
12. Notes 207
13. Bibliography and Filmography 235
14. Index 249