Table of Contents

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

Promotional Information

Examines the feature film production of Fascist-era Italy

About the Author

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.

Reviews

"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