Table of Contents
Prologue xi
Introduction xvi
1 Buzzing Through Ruins 1
2 "An Old River Among the Great Hotels" 8
3 Made in Italy 25
4 "The Three-Sided Mirror" 34
5 "Paris Didn't Move Us Like This" 45
6 "Motion Pictures Are the Most Powerful Weapon" 57
7 "Hollywood on the Tiber" 72
8 Scattini and Fumetti 79
9 A Girl on a Beach 87
10 A Nose for the Shot 98
11 The Curvy Girls 103
12 "She Will Be a Sensation" 111
13 "She's Impossible to Photograph" 122
14 "I'm a Peasant" 135
15 Signor Sigarone 144
16 "Sit Down, If You Dare" 151
17 "Florence Is a Lost Cause" 160
18 "A Fine Race Horse and a Goat" 178
19 "A Charnel House Under a Green Marquee" 193
20 "Poor Starving Devils" 225
21 "We Take Their Pictures and They Beat Us Up" 238
22 "The Most Sinful, Transgressive Thing" 248
23 Babylon, 2000 Years After Christ 257
24 "Poor You" 287
25 "I Am Not a Sexy Pot" 309
26 You've Done It, You've Won" 321
27 "A Ravenous Wolf Pack" 331
28 "Everybody Becomes a Roman Within Three Days" 338
29 "There's No Erotic Charge in Me" 350
30 "We Are on Stage All the Time" 365
31 "Please Stop Crying!" 374
Acknowledgments 395
Notes 399
Bibliography 411
Illustration Credits 423
Index 425