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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jacqueline Reich; Piero Garofalo |
ISBN: | 0253340454 9780253340450 0253215188 9780253215185 |
OCLC Number: | 47075300 |
Description: | xiv, 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Mussolini at the movies : fascism, film, and culture / Jacqueline Reich -- Dubbing l'arte muta : poetic layerings around Italian cinema's transition to sound / Giorgio Bertellini -- Intimations of neo-realism in the fascist Ventennio / ennio di Nolfo -- Placing cinema, fascism, and the nation in a diagram of Italian modernity / James Hay -- Sex in the cinema : regulation and transgression in Italian films, 1930-1943 / David Forgacs -- Luchino Visconti's (homosexual) Ossessione / William Van Watson -- Ways of looking in black and white : female spectatorship and the miscege-national body in Sotto la croce del sud / Robin Pickering-Iazzi -- Seeing red : the Soviet influence on Italian cinema in the thirties / Piero Garofalo -- Theatricality and impersonation : the politics of style in the cinema of the Italian fascist era / Marcia Landy -- Shopping for autarchy : fascism and reproductive fantasy in Mario Camerini's Grandi magazzini / Barbara Spackman -- The last film festival : the Venice Biennale goes to war / Marla Stone -- Film stars and society in fascist Italy / Stephen Gundle. |
Responsibility: | edited by Jacqueline Reich and Piero Garofalo. |
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Each essay makes a point of correcting misconceptions about the cinema during the ventennio [the period of fascist rule], which makes this book a significant contribution to the literature. December 2002 -- S. Vander Closter * Rhode Island School of Design * Read more...

