Cinema And Fascism
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Cinema and Fascism
Author: Steven Ricci
language: en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date: 2008-02
"This study considers Italian filmmaking during the Fascist era and offers an original and revealing approach to the interwar years. Steven Ricci directly confronts a long-standing dilemma faced by cultural historians: while made during a period of totalitarian government, these films are neither propagandistic nor openly "Fascist." Instead, the Italian Fascist regime attempted to build ideological consensus by erasing markers of class and regional difference and by circulating terms for an imaginary national identity. Cinema and Fascism investigates the complex relationship between the totalitarian regime and Italian cinema. It looks at the films themselves, the industry, and the role of cinema in daily life, and offers new insights into this important but neglected period in cinema history." -- Book cover.
Italian Fascism's Empire Cinema
Author: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
language: en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date: 2015-02-11
Ruth Ben-Ghiat provides the first in-depth study of feature and documentary films produced under the auspices of Mussolini’s government that took as their subjects or settings Italy’s African and Balkan colonies. These "empire films" were Italy's entry into an international market for the exotic. The films engaged its most experienced and cosmopolitan directors (Augusto Genina, Mario Camerini) as well as new filmmakers (Roberto Rossellini) who would make their marks in the postwar years. Ben-Ghiat sees these films as part of the aesthetic development that would lead to neo-realism. Shot in Libya, Somalia, and Ethiopia, these movies reinforced Fascist racial and labor policies and were largely forgotten after the war. Ben-Ghiat restores them to Italian and international film history in this gripping account of empire, war, and the cinema of dictatorship.
Re-viewing Fascism
Author: Jacqueline Reich
language: en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date: 2002-05-07
Very few feature films during the Fascist period can be labelled as propaganda. Rather than soldiers, schoolgirls dominated the screen; the boudoir, not the battlefield, was the setting of choice.