Re-viewing Fascism: Italian Cinema, 1922-1943Jacqueline Reich, Piero Garofalo Indiana University Press, 7. maj 2002 - 384 sider When Benito Mussolini proclaimed that "Cinema is the strongest weapon," he was telling only half the story. In reality, very few feature films during the Fascist period can be labeled as propaganda. Re-viewing Fascism considers the many films that failed as "weapons" in creating cultural consensus and instead came to reflect the complexities and contradictions of Fascist culture. The volume also examines the connection between cinema of the Fascist period and neorealism—ties that many scholars previously had denied in an attempt to view Fascism as an unfortunate deviation in Italian history. The postwar directors Luchino Visconti, Roberto Rossellini, and Vittorio de Sica all had important roots in the Fascist era, as did the Venice Film Festival. While government censorship loomed over Italian filmmaking, it did not prevent frank depictions of sexuality and representations of men and women that challenged official gender policies. Re-viewing Fascism brings together scholars from different cultural and disciplinary backgrounds as it offers an engaging and innovative look into Italian cinema, Fascist culture, and society. |
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... character from the gen- eral trend of light - hearted films . The ENIC even lent its hand to pro- duction , eschewing overtly propagandistic films.24 Apart from ENIC's involvement in theater management , most of the new policies ...
... characters seek refuge from an air raid in a bomb shelter . Among the most popular films were the so - called white - telephone parlor comedies , which were closely associated with the bourgeois the- atrical tradition and labeled as ...
... characters typical of Hollywood films , Italian films attempted to take advantage of the established popularity in Italy of Hollywood products . According to James Hay's Popular Film Culture in Fascist Italy , America projected an ...
... characters is far from cohesive and resists the dominant ideology , for any lack of maternal instinct necessarily counters the Fascist position of motherhood as a woman's natural and sole destiny . Via delle cinque lune is an example of ...
... characters ' actions . This refuge into the formal had political implications . Fused with this predilection for the formal were realist , even pre - neorealist , ele- ments , such as the psychological veracity of the characters.50 ...
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Dubbing LArte Muta Poetic Layerings around Italian Cinemas Transition to Sound | 30 |
Intimations of Neorealism in the Fascist Ventennio | 83 |
Placing Cinema Fascism and the Nation in a Diagram of Italian Modernity | 105 |
Fascism Cinema and Sexuality | 139 |
Sex in the Cinema Regulation and Transgression in Italian Films 19301943 | 141 |
Luchino Viscontis Homosexual Ossessione | 172 |
Ways of Looking in Black and White Female Spectatorship and the Miscegenational Body in Sotto la croce del sud | 194 |
Seeing Red The Soviet Influence on Italian Cinema in the Thirties | 223 |
Theatricality and Impersonation The Politics of Style in the Cinema of the Italian Fascist Era | 250 |
Shopping for Autarchy Fascism and Reproductive Fantasy in Mario Camerinis Grandi magazzini | 276 |
The Last Film Festival The Venice Biennale Goes to War | 293 |
Film Stars and Society in Fascist Italy | 315 |
Selected Bibliography | 341 |
Contributors | 353 |
Index | 356 |
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