Italian Fascism''s Empire Cinema

Ben-Ghiat restores them to Italian and international film history in this gripping account of empire, war, and the cinema of dictatorship.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Empire Cinema: Frames and Agendas

2. Italian Cinema and the Colonies to 1935

3. Mapping Empire Cinema, 1935-39

4. Coming Home to the Colonies

5. Imperial Bodies I: Italians and Askaris

6. Imperial Bodies II: Slaves of Love, Slaves of Labor

7. Film Policies and Cultures, 1940-1943

8. The End of Empire

Epilogue

Filmography

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Ruth Ben-Ghiat is Professor of Italian Studies and History at New York University.

Product details

• Authors: Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Ben-Ghiat Ruth, Ann Laura Stoler
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.02.2015
• EAN: 9780253015525
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01552-5
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: New Directions in National Cin; New Directions in National Cinemas; New Directions in National Cin
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History