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

by Steven Ricci

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520253566
• ISBN13: 9780520253568
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.8"