Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Commitment to Style xi
5. 1 One Man Up (L’uomo in piú): The Consequences of Coincidence 1
6. 2 The Consequences of Love (Le conseguenze dell’amore): This Must Be the (Non-) Place 13
7. 3 The Family Friend (L’amico di famiglia): “Ridiculous Men and Beautiful Women” 31
8. 4 “What Will They Remember About You?” Il Divo and the Possibility of a Twenty-First-Century Political Film 46
9. 5 This Must Be the Place: From the Ridiculous to the Unspeakable (A Holocaust Road Movie) 67
10. 6 The Great Beauty (La grande bellezza): Reflective Nostalgia and the Ironic Elegiac 86
11. 7 Youth (La giovinezza): Between Horror and Desire (Life’s Last Day) 106
12. 8 Ceci n’est pas un pape: Postsecular Melodrama in The Young Pope 123
13. Coda: Toward a Post-Political Film: Loro and the Mediatic Elegiac 150
14. Conclusion: Style as Commitment 174
15. Notes 179
16. Bibliography 209
17. Index 223