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Author Fabbri, Lorenzo, 1978- author.

Title Cinema is the strongest weapon : race-making and resistance in fascist Italy / Lorenzo Fabbri.

Publication Info. Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2023]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 299 pages) : illustrations
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary "Cinema Is the Strongest Weapon examines how cinema was harnessed under the rule of Benito Mussolini as a political tool by both the reigning fascist regime and those who sought to resist it. Drawing incisive parallels to contemporary debates around race, whiteness, and authoritarianism, Lorenzo Fabbri presents an urgent view into the broader impact of visual media on culture and society"-- Provided by publisher
Note Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 29, 2023).
Subject Fascism and motion pictures -- Italy.
Motion pictures in propaganda -- Italy.
Motion pictures -- Italy -- History -- 20th century.
Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- Italy -- History -- 20th century.
Race in motion pictures.
National characteristics, Italian, in motion pictures.
Realism in motion pictures.
Fascisme et cinéma -- Italie.
Cinéma dans la propagande -- Italie.
Cinéma -- Italie -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
Cinéma -- Aspect politique -- Italie -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
Race au cinéma.
Italiens au cinéma.
Réalisme au cinéma.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film -- History & Criticism.
Fascism and motion pictures
Motion pictures
Motion pictures in propaganda
Motion pictures -- Political aspects
National characteristics, Italian, in motion pictures
Race in motion pictures
Realism in motion pictures
Italy
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History
Other Form: Print version: Fabbri, Lorenzo, 1978- Cinema is the strongest weapon. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2023 9781517910846 (DLC) 2023012198
ISBN 9781452965369 (electronic book)
1452965366 (electronic book)
1452965358 (electronic book)
9781452965352 (electronic bk.)
9781517910846 (paperback ; acid-free paper)
9781517910839 (library binding ; acid-free paper)
Standard No. AU@ 000076184392

 
    
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