Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Piero Garofalo and Jacqueline Reich
Part 1: Framing Fascism and Cinema
1. Mussolini at the Movies: Fascism, Film, and Culture
Jacqueline Reich
2. Dubbing L'Arte Muta: Poetic Layerings Around Italian Cinema's
Transition to Sound
Giorgio Bertellini
3. Intimations of Neorealism in the Fascist Ventennio
Ennio Di Nolfo
4. Placing Cinema, Fascism, and the Nation in a Diagram of
Italian Modernity
James Hay
Part 2: Fascism, Cinema, and Sexuality
5. Sex in the Cinema: Regulation and Transgression in Italian
Films, 1930–1943
David Forgacs
6. Luchino Visconti's (Homosexual) Ossessione
William Van Watson
7. Ways of Looking in Black and White: Female Spectatorship and
the Miscege-national Body in Sotto la croce del sud
Robin Pickering-Iazzi
Part 3: Fascism and Film in (Con)texts
8. Seeing Red: The Soviet Influence on Italian Cinema in the
Thirties
Piero Garofalo
9. Theatricality and Impersonation: The Politics of Style in the
Cinema of the Italian Fascist Era
Marcia Landy
10. Shopping for Autarchy: Fascism and Reproductive Fantasy in
Mario Camerini's Grandi magazzini
Barbara Spackman
11. The Last Film Festival: The Venice Biennale Goes to War
Marla Stone
12. Film Stars and Society in Fascist Italy
Stephen Gundle
Selected Bibliography
Index
Examines the feature film production of Fascist-era Italy
Jacqueline Reich is Assistant Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Piero Garofalo is Assistant Professor of Italian at the University of New Hampshire.
"Each essay makes a point of correcting misconceptions about the cinema during the ventennio [the period of fascist rule], which makes this book a significant contribution to the literature."--Choice
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