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
Millicent Marcus is a professor of Italian Studies and
Film & Media Studies at Yale University.
"Millicent Marcus's new book confirms her status as the preeminent
authority in Italian film studies in North America. Offering a
constellation of close readings of key films, the book draws a map
of Italian cinematic production since 2000. Marcus's brilliant
analyses of these films interweave film semiotics, social and
political considerations, deep knowledge of Italian film history,
as well as an erudite awareness of the artistic legacies continuing
to inform cultural production in Italy today."--Áine O'Healy,
Professor of Italian, Loyola Marymount University, and author of
Migrant Anxieties: Italian Cinema in a Transnational Frame
"Millicent Marcus's groundbreaking work has once again provided a
definitive conceptual language for the vision driving new
generations of filmmakers. In lyrical, lucid prose and via
insightful close readings, Italian Film in the Present Tense amply
proves Marcus's case: that contemporary Italian cinema is as
innovative, rooted, and politically engaged as ever. The rigorous,
medium-specific analysis tracks a multitude of ways in which
twenty-first-century Italian cinema takes the pulse of Italy's body
politic - and shows how its creative vitality enables deep memory,
political soul-searching, and profound hope for the future."--Elena
Past, Professor of Italian, Wayne State University
"In her new book, Marcus offers an insightful, lively, and very
personal reading of some of the great figures of contemporary
Italian cinema as well as of the lesser-known directors of the new
millennium - a vast continent of cultural models now mapped with
lucidity within crime stories, gendered landscapes, regional
peripheries, migration, and political contexts. Italian Film in the
Present Tense is a remarkable and entirely engaging book, a major
work of scholarship."--Gaetana Marrone, Professor of Italian,
Princeton University
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