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anti fascism
Author_Stephen Ricci
Author_Steven Ricci
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class differences
cultural studies
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fascism
fascist era
fascist sports
film history
film industry
film studies
historical memory
historiography
hollywood
ideology
industrialization
interwar years
italian cinema
italian fascist regime
italian film
italian film history
italian filmmaking
italy
leisure time
movie studies
mussolini
national body
national identity
neorealism
political
politics
propaganda
readership
regional differences
spectatorship
totalitarian government
Product details
- ISBN 9780520253568
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2008
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Steven Ricci is the Director of the Moving Image Archive Studies program at University of California, Los Angeles, where he also teaches in the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media and the Department of Information Studies.
