Ruth Ben-Ghiat provides the first in-depth study of feature and documentary films produced
under the auspices of Mussolini's government that took as their subjects or settings Italy's …

Looking at the dark history of Italian fashion by focusing on the impact of 1930s Fascism, this
is the second edition of Eugenia Paulicelli's classic text. In Fashion under Fascism, Paulicelli …

Drawing on a range of canonical and non-canonical literary, cinematic and social scientific
texts produced in post-Unification Italy, Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy is an …

As the first decade of the twenty-first century draws to a close, Italy is in the process of
defining its “new” multiracial and multicultural society. The country's history of emigration is …

It is a dark, rainy night and a hotel sign is swaying in the wind deep in the countryside. A car
pulls up at the garage that is annexed to the hotel and an attendant reluctantly appears. As …

Tra dive e colossal, intellettuali e masse popolari, ambizioni universali e superomismo
dannunziano, Quo Vadis e La signora delle camelie, Gian Piero Brunetta traccia la …

Italian cinemas after the war were filled by audiences who had come to watch domestically-
produced films of passion and pathos. These highly emotional and consciously theatrical …

Italian cinema triumphed globally in the 1960, with directors such as Rossellini, Fellini, and
Leone, and actors like Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni known to audiences around …

The muscle-bound male body is a perennial feature of classically-inflected action cinema.
This book reassesses these films as a cinematic form, focusing on the depiction of heroic …

Using previously unpublished material from the L'Unione Cinematografica Educativa
(LUCE) archive and the Central State Archive in Rome, this article examines how film …