Part 1: The Early Making of an Industry
1. The "Thinkability" of the Cinema: Is it Art or is it a Business?
2. Cinemania: Entrepreneurs and Would-Be Producers
Part 2: The Design of a "Powerful Weapon": Cinema under Fascism
3. The Visible Hand: A Way to the Cinematic Renaissance
4. "We can be like Hollywood"
Part 3: Building the Cinematic Miracle: Cinema under Democracy
5. Multiple Actors and the Re-Birth of an Industry
6. Entrepreneurial Efforts in the Worldwide Race
7. Drawing the Crowds: Box Office Miracles
Part 4: "Shooting the Miracle"
8. Towards Obscurity
9. Conclusions
Biography
Marina Nicoli is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management at Bocconi University, Italy.
