Publication

2015 - Indiana University Press

Language

English

Word Count

105,000 words, Guess

Page Count

420 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780253015594
  • Open LibraryOL28545231M

Classifications

  • LCCPN1993.5.I88B336
  • LCCPN1993.5.I88 B336 2015

Description

"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." -- Publisher's description

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Italian Fascism's Empire CinemaIndiana University Press2015-01-01

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