Post-War Italian Cinema: American Intervention, Vatican Interests

ISBN-13: 9780415887786 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 198 str.

Daniela Treveri Gennari;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

Through an analysis of official documents from the Vatican and the US Department of State, this study investigates the role that American production companies played in the development of the Italian film industry. It evaluates how the Italian production and distribution industries served US political and economic interests.

Recenzje

"...this is a very useful book, detailing a period in Italian film history that is more complex than has been allowed for in more general historical studies. Gennari's access to original archive material and to important sources...are key to this book's value and to its significance for scholars of Italian cinema and film history more broadly."--Paul Sutton, Times Higher Education

Spis treści

Chapter 1: You Can Be Like Us: American Intervention in Italian Reconstruction  Chapter 2: Roman Catholicism, Americanism and Americanisation: Ideology, Politics and Cultural Propaganda  Chapter 3: The State, Cinema Legislation and American Interests  Chapter 4: Endemic Propaganda: Catholic Production, Exhibition and Criticism  Chapter 5: Dispelling the Myth: The Popularity of American and Italian Cinema in Post-War Italy and the Response of the Catholic Church  Chapter 6: Gender Roles, the Church and the Allure of Modernity in American and Italian Films  Conclusions

O autorze

Daniela Treveri Gennari is Field Chair and Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University.