Paolo Sorrentinos Cinema and Television

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Copyright page
Contents
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Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction:
The Creative and Artistic Trajectory of
Paolo Sorrentino
PART ONE: EXAMINING AND DECONSTRUCTING SORRENTINO’S ETHOS
	1. Private Pain/Public Places: Sights, Sightings and Sounds of 
Nostalgia in Youth and The Young Pope
	2. Against Postmodernism: Paolo Sorrentino and the Search for Authenticity
	3. A Journey from Death to Life: Spectacular Realism and the ‘Unamendability’ of Reality in Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty
	4. Paolo Sorrentino’s Cinematic Excess
PART TWO: SORRENTINO’S REAL AND
SYMBOLIC SPACES
	5. Posthuman Sorrentino: Youth and The Great Beauty as Ecocinema
	6. Interpolating the ‘blah, blah, blah’: The Great Beauty’s Vocal Rome
	7. The Great Beauty:
A Journey Through Art and Relations
in Search for Beauty
	8. The Urban Dimension as Film Character:
Rome in The Great Beauty
PART THREE: A JOURNEY INTO
SORRENTINO’S PSYCHE
	9. The ‘Primal Scene’: Memory, Redemption and ‘Woman’ in the Films of Paolo Sorrentino
	10. Anxiety (of Influence) and (Absent) Fathers in Sorrentino’s English-Language Narratives
	11. ‘È solo l’alito di un vecchio’:
Obscenity, Exchange Regimes, and the
Catastrophe of Aging in Loro1
PART FOUR: SORRENTINO’S
POSTSECULAR POPE
	12. The Young Pope’s Credit Sequence:
A Post-secular Allegory in Ten Paintings
	13. The ‘Fabrication’ of Religion in The Young Pope: The Double Irony of Post-Secular ‘Iconoclash’
	14. The Young Pope:
Between Television and Celebrity Studies
	15. Interview with Carlo Poggioli
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
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