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  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction: Cinema/Politico
  7. 1. “A Dance of Figures”: For a Figural Theory of Political Cinema
  8. 2. The Worker: Subjectivity within and against Capital
  9. 3. The Housewife: Figuring Reproductive Labor
  10. 4. The Youth: The Dialectic of Enjoyment
  11. 5. The Saint: An Ethics of Autonomy
  12. 6. The Specter: Totality as Conjuration
  13. 7. Apocalypse with Figures: The Tyrant, the Intriguer, the Martyr
  14. Epilogue: The Cinema of ’68, the ’68 of Cinema
  15. Acknowledgments
  16. Notes
  17. Index
  18. About the Author

About the Author

Mauro Resmini is associate professor of cinema and media studies and Italian at the University of Maryland, College Park.

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This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the University of Maryland. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: openmonographs.org.

Portions of chapter 1 and a different version of chapter 2 were published as “The Worker as Figure: On Elio Petri’s The Working Class Goes to Heaven,” Diacritics 46, no. 4 (2019): 72–95; copyright 2018 Cornell University, published with permission by Johns Hopkins University Press. Portions of chapter 7 were published as “Asymmetries of Desire: Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom,” in Unwatchable, ed. Nicolas Baer, Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, and Gunnar Iversen, 160–64 (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2019).

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