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<N>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