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