Mussolini's dream factory : film stardom in fascist Italy / Stephen Gundle.

By: Gundle, Stephen, 1956-Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013Description: 1 online resource (332 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781782382454Subject(s): Motion pictures -- Italy -- History -- 20th century | Motion picture actors and actresses -- Italy | Fascism and motion pictures -- Italy -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mussolini's dream factory : film stardom in fascist Italy.DDC classification: 791.430945 LOC classification: PN1993.5.I88 | G88 2013Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction -- Fascism, cinema and stardom. Italian cinema under fascism -- The creation of a star system -- Stars and commercial culture -- The public and the stars -- Italian stars of the Fascist Era. The national star: Isa Miranda -- The matine idol: Vittorio De Sica -- Everybody's fiance: Assia Noris -- The star as hero: Amedeo Nazzari -- The uniformed role model: Fosco Giachetti -- The photogenic beauty: Alida Valli -- The Duce's whim: Miria Di San Servolo -- The aftermath of stardom. Civil war, liberation and reconstruction -- Survival, memory and forgetting.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Fascism, cinema and stardom. Italian cinema under fascism -- The creation of a star system -- Stars and commercial culture -- The public and the stars -- Italian stars of the Fascist Era. The national star: Isa Miranda -- The matine idol: Vittorio De Sica -- Everybody's fiance: Assia Noris -- The star as hero: Amedeo Nazzari -- The uniformed role model: Fosco Giachetti -- The photogenic beauty: Alida Valli -- The Duce's whim: Miria Di San Servolo -- The aftermath of stardom. Civil war, liberation and reconstruction -- Survival, memory and forgetting.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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