Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: An Overview
Mafias
1. Toward a New Language of Engagement for the New Millennium:
Marco Tullio Giordana’s The One Hundred Steps, 2000
2. The Anti-Mafia Martyr Film Takes an Unexpected Turn:
Pierfrancesco Diliberto’s The Mafia Only Kills in the Summer, 2013
3. “This Is Not a Crime Film”:
Michele Placido’s Crime Novel, 2005
4. “The Normality of Devastation”:
Matteo Garrone’s Gomorrah, 2008
Neo-regionalism
5. “Non per vacanza, ma per viverci!” (Not to Vacation, but to Live Here!):
Giorgio Diritti’s The Wind Blows Round, 2005
6. The Child as the “Custodian of Future Memory”:
Giorgio Diritti’s The Man Who Is to Come, 2009
Migrants
7. Channeling the Geographic Unconscious:
Federico Bondi’s Black Sea, 2009
8. “Your Position Please”:
Gianfranco Rosi’s Fire at Sea, 2016
Leadership
9. The Ironist and the Auteur:
Paolo Sorrentino’s Il Divo, 2008
10. Liberating the Left: Toward a Humanist Language of Engagement for a Post-Political Age:
Roberto Andò’s Long Live Liberty, 2013
11. The Pontiff and the Shrink:
Nanni Moretti’s We Have a Pope, 2011
Women
12. "It Ended the Way It Should Have”:
Francesca Comencini’s The Blank Space, 2008
13. Comic Relief:
Riccardo Milani’s Don’t Stop Me Now, 2019
In a Category unto Itself
14. Hidden Beneath the “Blah Blah Blah”:
Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty, 2013
Bibliography
Index
