Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PART ONE
4. 1 The White Boats of Waxholm 3
5. 2 Al Pommidoro 17
6. 3 In Search of Gennariello 31
7. 4 The Idroscalo, Ostia 45
8. 5 Lunedi, 3.xi.75 63
9. 6 Campo dei Fiori 76
10. PART TWO
11. 7 Colus di Batiston 95
12. 8 A Model Boy 109
13. 9 Friulian Rapture 129
14. 10 Surviving the Intolerable 147
15. 11 The Party’s Foot Soldier in the Garden of Alcina 165
16. 12 Saint Sabina’s Day in Ramuscello 191
17. 13 “At the City’s Far Edge” 213
18. 14 In Rebibbia Exile 234
19. 15 Anni Mirabili 250
20. 16 Lachrimosa 293
21. PART THREE
22. 17 Accattone 321
23. 18 Mamma Roma, the Golden Bullet of Bernardino De Santis, Blasphemy 354
24. 19 The Cinema of Ideology 390
25. 20 Christ according to Pasolini 409
26. 21 A Maker of Fables 431
27. 22 The Cinema of Poetry 464
28. 23 Medea and Callas 494
29. 24 The Trilogy of Life 521
30. 25 Lutheran Letters to the Italians 563
31. 26 The Collapse of the Present 585
32. 27 Fast Fade to Black 611
33. Afterword (2017) 641
34. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 673
35. ABBREVIATIONS 677
36. NOTES 679
37. INDEX OF NAMES 699