Visconti's La terra trema : the typology of adaptation --Visconti's Leopard : the politics of adaptation -- De Sica's Two women : realigning the gaze -- De Sica's Garden of the Finzi-Continis : an escapist paradise lost -- Pasolini's Gospel according to St. Matthew : the gaze of faith -- Pasolini's Decameron : writing with bodies -- The Tavianis' Padre padrone : the critical acquisition of codes -- The Tavianis' Kaos : the poetics of adaptation -- Fellini's Casanova : adaptation by self-projection -- Fellini's La voce della luna : resisting postmodernism.
