Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-229) and index
Time Has Changed -- - The Uneasy Relationship with the Past in the Postwar Period -- - A Fatherless Generation: Pietro Germi's Gioventu perduta -- - A Hero Astray: Vasco Pratolini's Un eroe del nostro tempo -- - The Suicide of the Future: Rossellini's Germania anno zero -- - From Mother to Daughter -- - The Emergence of a Female Genealogy -- - The War as Emotional Setting: Anna Banti's Artemisia -- - Female Solidarity: Alba de Cespedes's Dalla parte di lei -- - Cinema Rediscovers Women -- - 'La' Magnani, or about Motherhood and Visconti's Bellissima -- - The Myth of America -- - The Antecedent -- - Revisionism at Work: Cesare Pavese and Giuseppe De Santis -- - The Rossellini-Bergman Affair: Stromboli terra di Dio -- - The Lost Train of Cultural Blending: De Sica's Stazione Termini -- - The Myth Is Over: Pavese's La luna e i falo -- - The Country at Hand -- - The Journey -- - The South: Ernesto De Martino and Rocco Scotellaro -- - Naples: Ortese's Il mare non bagna Napoli and Rossellini's Viaggio in Italia -- - Toward a Postmodernist Paradigm: Antonioni's Le amiche
