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Italian fascisms empire cinema / Ruth Ben-Ghiat.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ben-Ghiat, Ruth, author.
- Series:
- New directions in national cinemas.
- New Directions in National Cinemas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Italy--History--20th century.
- Motion pictures.
- Imperialism in motion pictures.
- Colonies in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Political aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (421 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Indiana ; Indianapolis, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Ben-Ghiat restores them to Italian and international film history in this gripping account of empire, war, and the cinema of dictatorship.
- Contents:
- Empire cinema: frames and agendas
- Italian cinema and the colonies to 1935
- Mapping empire cinema, 1935-1939
- Coming home to the colonies
- Imperial bodies, part I: Italians and Askaris
- Imperial bodies, part II: slaves of love, slaves of labor
- Film policies and cultures, 1940-1943
- The end of empire.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780253015662
- 0253015669
- OCLC:
- 905949631
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