Cinema Is the Strongest Weapon Race-Making and Resistance in Fascist Italy

Lorenzo Fabbri's 'Cinema Is the Strongest Weapon: Race-Making and Resistance in Fascist Italy' examines the role of cinema in shaping racial ideologies and resistance movements during the Fascist era in Italy. The book explores how film was used as a tool for both promoting and resist...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Fabbri, Lorenzo (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press 2023.
Edición:1st ed
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009799136806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments: Fascism and Us
  • Introduction: Race War through Other Media
  • Chapter 1. The Government of the Ungovernable: Race and Cinema in Early Italian Film Novels
  • Chapter 2. Workers Entering the Military-Industrial Complex: Pirandello's and Ruttman's Acciaio
  • Chapter 3. White, Red, Blackshirt: Blasetti's Ecofascist Realism
  • Chapter 4. The Shame of Escapism: Camerini's Anthropological Machines
  • Chapter 5. The White Italian Mediterranean: De Robertis, Rossellini, and Fascism's Melodramatic Imperialism
  • Chapter 6. De Sica's Genre Trouble: Laughing Fascism Away?
  • Chapter 7. Queer Antifascism: Visconti's Ossessione and the Cinema Conspiracy against Ethno-Nationalism
  • Conclusion: On Neorealism: The Ends of the Resistance and the Birth of an Area
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author.