TY - GEN T1 - Cinema and Fascism : Italian Film and Society, 1922-1943. A1 - Ricci, Steven LA - English PP - CA PB - University of California Press YR - 2008 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn774493722 AB - This study considers Italian filmmaking during the Fascist era and offers an original and revealing approach to the interwar years. Steven Ricci directly confronts a long-standing dilemma faced by cultural historians: while made during a period of totalitarian government, these films are neither propagandistic nor openly "Fascist." Instead, the Italian Fascist regime attempted to build ideological consensus by erasing markers of class and regional difference and by circulating terms for an imaginary national identity. Cinema and Fascism investigates the complex relationship between the totalit. OP - 249 CN - PN1993.5.I88 SN - 9780520941281 SN - 0520941284 SN - 9780520253551 KW - Motion pictures : Italy : History. KW - Fascism and motion pictures : Italy : History. KW - Motion pictures : Social aspects : Italy. KW - Cinéma : Italie : Histoire. KW - Fascisme et cinéma : Italie : Histoire. KW - Cinéma : Aspect social : Italie. KW - ART : Film & Video. KW - PERFORMING ARTS : Film & Video : Reference. KW - PERFORMING ARTS : Film & Video : General. KW - Fascism and motion pictures KW - Motion pictures KW - Motion pictures : Social aspects KW - Italy KW - History ER -