Cinema and Fascism :: Italian Film and Society, 1922-1943.

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 pro...

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1. Verfasser: Ricci, Steven
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: CA : University of California Press, 2008.
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Zusammenfassung: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 totalit.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (249 pages)
ISBN:9780520941281
0520941284

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