The Adventures of Roberto Rossellini

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Contents: Preface = ix 1. Fantasy = 1 2. Youth = 17 3. Passing Time = 35 4. Finally Working = 46 5. The War Trilogy: La nave bianca, Un pilota ritorna, L'uomo dalla croce = 59 6. World War II Comes Home = 89 7. Open City = 115 8. Paisa = 180 9. Slopes of Hope: Una voce umana, Deutschland im Jahre Null, Il miracolo = 228 10. Neo-realism = mc(2) (Some Theory) = 266 11. Debacles: La macchina ammazzacattivi = 281 12. Neo-realism = ∞ (Some More Theory) = 293 13. Land of God = 308 14. God's Jester = 340 15. Europe '51 = 367 16. Voyage in Italy = 396 17. At the Stake: Giovanna d'Arco al rogo, Fear = 417 18. The Great Mother = 465 19. Bottom Up: Il generale Della Rovere = 497 20. Poet Laureate: Era notte a Roma, Viva l'Italia = 517 21. "The Cinema Is Dead" but Where Is Chastity? Vanina Vanini, Anima nera, The Iron Age = 538 22. La Prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV = 569 23. A New Cinematic Language: Acts of the Apostles = 581 24. Socrates (Trilogy of Desiccation I) = 599 25. Blaise Pascal (Trilogy of Desiccation II) = 622 26. The Age of the Medici = 635 27. Cartesius (Trilogy of Desiccation III) = 648 28. Anno uno and The Messiah = 661 29. The End = 676 Filmography = 689 Notes = 708 Select Bibliography = 772 Acknowledgments = 776 Index = 778

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