Popular Film Culture in Fascist Italy

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ISBN: 9780253204325 | 0253204321
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 6/1/1987

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Acknowledgments
Preface: Grandfather Fascism and Amarcord
Introduction
The Production of Popular Film Culture in Fascist Italy
Film Culture and -Film Literacy+
Ideology and Image
Film Narrative as Social Ritual
The Nature of Consensus through Popular Film
Methodology: Charting a National-Popular Film Culture
Castelli in aria: The Myth of the Grand Hotel
The Grand Hotel as Revolving Door to the -Bel Mondo+
Rotaie: Romance along the Highway
Il Signorino Gianni and Il Signor Max
Working the Grand Hotels
Italy as Grand Hotel
Fascism and the Mood of the Grand Hotel
The Epochalist Impulse in 1930s Italian Cinema
-Cose dell+altro mondo+: American Images in Fascist Italy
Gradisca -Gets Her Gary Cooper+
American Movies in Italy and the Formation of Cultural Policy
American Cinema in Italy and Media Imperialism
The Diversity of the -Dominant+ Idelogy
Decoding American Films in Italy and the Role of the Audience
Translating the American Dream(s)AdvertisingDubbing and DeletingAmerican Roles and Stereotypes in Italian FilmsAmerican News/Italian NewsreelThe Critic+s Translation
Conclusions
Grandi Magazzini: Stracitta and the Department Store as Temple of Consumer Culture
The Modern Myths
Corporativism and the Myth of the Department Store
Urban Culture as Popular Culture: A New Image for the Italian City
The New Woman: Lost and Found in the CityConclusions
Terra madre and the Myth of Strapaese
Stracitta and Strapaese
The Rhetoric of Strapaese in the Films of Alessandro BlasettiTerra madre: A Return to the Land
The Rural-Urban Conflict in 1930s Films
Treno popolare: The Realism of Rural Romance
Rural Culture and Popular Culture
Historical Films and the Myth of Divine Origins
The Legacy in (and of) Italian Historical Films
Scipione and the Grandeur of Ancient Rome
Condottieri and the Myth of Chivalry
1860 and the Italian Risorgimento
Napoli d+altri tempi: The Birth of a National-Popular Anthem
The Authority of Historical Films
Italian Colonial Films and the Myth of the Impero
Impero and ImperialismIl grande appello: Oedipus in the Desert
Lo squadrone bianco and the Retribution of Desert Life
Sotto la croce del sud: Taming Mysterious Territories and Dangerous Women
Charting the Wilderness: Africa as Cinematic Frontier
LUCE/Cinema/shadows
The Centralization of Italian Cinema
Documenting a National Spirit
Current Events as Spectacle
Mussolini as DivoConclusions
Whose Fascism?
Political Action in an Illusory Universe
Politics in Cinema and Cinema in Politics
+Cultura popolare+ and the Nation
Fascism as Meta-Community through Meta-Communication
Cultural Policy
The Passing of the Rex
Appendixes
Number of Motion Picture Theaters in Italy 1928-1937
Number of Italian Films Produced between 1920 and 1940
Percent of American Films Shown in Italy between 1920 and 1940
Number of Theaters in Each Province in 1929
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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