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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 College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Learn more at the TOME website, available at openmonographs.org.

Chapter 7 was originally published as “Queer Neorealism: Luchino Visconti’s Ossessione and the Cinema Conspiracy against Fascism,” Screen 60, no. 1 (Spring 2019): 1–24. Portions of the Conclusion are adapted from “Neorealism as Ideology: Bazin, Deleuze, and the Avoidance of Fascism,” The Italianist 35, no. 2 (2015): 182–201, https://doi.org/10.1179/0261434015Z.000000000115.

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