Lorenzo Fabbri

Cinema is the Strongest Weapon

Race-Making and Resistance in Fascist Italy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9781517910839
• ISBN-10: 1517910838
• Artikelnr.: 72611688

Autorenporträt

Lorenzo Fabbri is an Imagine Fund Arts, Humanities, and Design Chair at the University of Minnesota.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments. Fascism and Us
Introduction. Race War through Other Media
1. The Government of the Ungovernable: Race and Cinema in Early Italian
Film Novels
2. Workers Entering the Military-Industrial Complex: Pirandello’s and
Ruttman’s Acciaio
3. White, Red, Blackshirt: Blasetti’s Ecofascist Realism
4. The Shame of Escapism: Camerini’s Anthropological Machines
5. The White Italian Mediterranean: De Robertis, Rossellini, and Fascism’s
Melodramatic Imperialism
6. De Sica’s Genre Trouble: Laughing Fascism Away?
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