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Mussolini's dream factory : film stardom in fascist Italy / Stephen Gundle.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013Description: 1 online resource (332 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781782382454 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mussolini's dream factory : film stardom in fascist Italy.DDC classification:
  • 791.430945 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1993.5.I88 G88 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Fascism, cinema and stardom. Italian cinema under fascism -- The creation of a star system -- Stars and commercial culture -- The public and the stars -- Italian stars of the Fascist Era. The national star: Isa Miranda -- The matine idol: Vittorio De Sica -- Everybody's fiance: Assia Noris -- The star as hero: Amedeo Nazzari -- The uniformed role model: Fosco Giachetti -- The photogenic beauty: Alida Valli -- The Duce's whim: Miria Di San Servolo -- The aftermath of stardom. Civil war, liberation and reconstruction -- Survival, memory and forgetting.
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The intersection between film stardom and politics is an understudied phenomenon of Fascist Italy, despite the fact that the Mussolini regime deemed stardom important enough to warrant sustained attention and interference. Focused on the period from the start of sound cinema to the final end of Fascism in 1945, this book examines the development of an Italian star system and evaluates its place in film production and distribution. The performances and careers of several major stars, including Isa Miranda, Vittorio De Sica, Amedeo Nazzari, and Alida Valli, are closely analyzed in terms of their relationships to the political sphere and broader commercial culture, with consideration of their fates in the aftermath of Fascism. A final chapter explores the place of the stars in popular memory and representations of the Fascist film world in postwar cinema.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Fascism, cinema and stardom. Italian cinema under fascism -- The creation of a star system -- Stars and commercial culture -- The public and the stars -- Italian stars of the Fascist Era. The national star: Isa Miranda -- The matine idol: Vittorio De Sica -- Everybody's fiance: Assia Noris -- The star as hero: Amedeo Nazzari -- The uniformed role model: Fosco Giachetti -- The photogenic beauty: Alida Valli -- The Duce's whim: Miria Di San Servolo -- The aftermath of stardom. Civil war, liberation and reconstruction -- Survival, memory and forgetting.

Description based on print version record.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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