Bibliograph

Italian fascism's empire cinema, Ruth Ben-Ghiat

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Italian fascism's empire cinema, Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Italian fascism's empire cinema

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

881204505

Responsibility statement

Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Series statement

New directions in national cinemas

Summary

Ruth Ben-Ghiat provides the first in-depth study of feature and documentary films produced under the auspices of Mussolini's government that took as their subjects or settings Italy's African and Balkan colonies. These "empire films" were Italy's entry into an international market for the exotic. The films engaged its most experienced and cosmopolitan directors (Augusto Genina, Mario Camerini) as well as new filmmakers (Roberto Rossellini) who would make their marks in the postwar years. Ben-Ghiat sees these films as part of the aesthetic development that would lead to neo-realism. Shot in Libya, Somalia, and Ethiopia, these movies reinforced Fascist racial and labor policies and were largely forgotten after the war. Ben-Ghiat restores them to Italian and international film history in this gripping account of empire, war, and the cinema of dictatorship

Table Of Contents

Empire cinema: frames and agendas -- Italian cinema and the colonies to 1935 -- Mapping empire cinema, 1935-1939 -- Coming home to the colonies -- Imperial bodies, part I: Italians and Askaris -- Imperial bodies, part II: slaves of love, slaves of labor -- Film policies and cultures, 1940-1943 -- The end of empire

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