Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-305) and index.
Contents
Francesco Rosi : the dialectical cinema -- Pier Paolo Pasolini : the epical-religious cinema of political sexuality -- Bernardo Bertolucci : the strategy of a Freudian Marxist -- Marco Bellocchio : an autobiographical leap into the political beyond -- Gillo Pontecorvo : at the perilous crossroads of history -- Elio Petri : a Kafkaesque moralist (often) above suspicion -- Lina Wertmuller : the politics of sexuality.