Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Giancarlo Lombardi
Introduction: The Creative and Artistic Trajectory of Paolo Sorrentino
Annachiara Mariani
Part one: Examining and Deconstructing Sorrentino’s Ethos
Chapter 1: Private Pain/Public Places: Sights, Sightings, and Sounds of Nostalgia in Youth and The Young Pope
Ellen Nerenberg
Chapter 2: Against Postmodernism. Paolo Sorrentino and the Search for Authenticity
Mimmo Cangiano
Chapter 3: A Journey from Death to Life: Spectacular Realism and the ‘Unamendability’ of Reality in Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty
Monica Facchini
Chapter 4: Paolo Sorrentino’s Cinematic Excess
Lydia Tuan
Part two: Sorrentino’s Real and Symbolic Spaces
Chapter 5: Posthuman Sorrentino. Youth and The Great Beauty as Ecocinema
Matteo Gilebbi
Chapter 6: Interpolating the ‘blah, blah, blah’: Rome’s Vocalization Through Architecture in The Great Beauty
Alex Gammon
Chapter 7: The Great Beauty: A Journey Through Art and Relations in Search for Beauty
Michela Barisonzi
Chapter 8: The Urban Dimension as Film Character: Rome in The Great Beauty
Carla Molinari
Part three: A Journey into Sorrentino’s Psyche
Chapter 9: The ‘Primal Scene’: Memory, Redemption and (The Image of) ‘Woman’ in the Films of Paolo Sorrentino
Russel Kilbourn
Chapter 10: Anxiety (of Influence) and (Absent) Fathers in Paolo Sorrentino
Sandra Waters
Chapter 11: ‘È solo l’alito di un vecchio’. Obscenity, Exchange Regimes, and the Catastrophe of Aging in Loro.
Nicoletta Marini-Maio
Part four: Sorrentino’s Postsecular Pope
Chapter 12: The Young Pope’s Credit Sequence: A Postsecular Allegory in Ten Paintings.
Russell Kilbourn
Chapter 13: The ‘Fabrication’ of Religion in The Young Pope: the Double Irony of Post-Secular Iconicity
Monica Jansen and Maria Bonaria Urban
Chapter 14: The Young Pope Between Television and Celebrity Studies
Anna Manzato and Antonella Mascio
Interview with Carlo Poggioli (costume designer of Paolo Sorrentino)
Annachiara Mariani
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