1st Edition
Post-War Italian Cinema American Intervention, Vatican Interests
By Daniela Treveri Gennari
Copyright 2009
218 Pages
22 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
218 Pages
22 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
218 Pages
22 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Through a comparative approach of current theories developed on ideology and an analysis of official documents from the Vatican and the United States Department of State, the book investigates the decisive role that American production companies played in the development of the Italian film industry and their links to the Vatican. This analysis evaluates how the Italian production and... Read more
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
Biography
Daniela Treveri Gennari is Field Chair and Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University.
"...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
