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C o n t e n t s Preface xi Introduction: Toward a Poetics of the Italian Art Film 1 Part One Neorealist Rhetoric and National Identity 1 The Chorus of Neorealism 19 2 Beyond Beauty: Cinematic Allegory and the Question of Italy 36 Part Two Cinemas of Poetry 3 Rossellini’s Cinema of Poetry: Voyage to Italy 53 4 Poesis in Pasolini: Theory and Practice 70 Part Three Aesthetic Corsi and Ricorsi 5 Threat of the Real: Fact and Image in Antonioni 89 6 Chiasmus, Italian Style: Rhetoric and Ideology in The Leopard and The Conformist 107 7 Verbal Montage and Visual Apostrophe: Zanzotto’s “Filò” and Fellini’s Voice of the Moon 124 Epilogue: Art Film Redux: Cinepoetics in the New Millennium 143 Notes 161 Works Cited 189 Index 205 This page intentionally left blank ...