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The University of California Press  is pleased to announce the publication of:



Cinema and Fascism: Italian Film and Society, 1922-1943



Steven Ricci is the Director of the Moving Image Archive Studies 

program at University of California, Los Angeles, where he also 

teaches in the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media and 

the Department of Information Studies.



http://go.ucpress.edu/RicciRascism



"Italian Fascism was full of paradoxes, one of which concerned the 

cinema. Why did this self-styled totalitarian regime adopt such an 

apparently laissez-faire attitude towards this major art form and 

medium of entertainment? And if Italian cinema in the Fascist period 

was rarely propagandistic, was it nevertheless permeated by Fascist 

values in other ways? Steven Ricci approaches these and related 

questions both knowledgeably and with a refreshingly open mind, 

eschewing all the usual cliche and coming up with surprising and 

fascinating answers."-Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, editor of _The Oxford 

History of World Cinema_





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 totalitarian regime and Italian cinema. It looks at the 

films themselves, the industry, and the role of cinema in daily life, 

and offers new insights into this important but neglected period in 

cinema history.



Full information about the book, including the table of contents, is 

available online: http://go.ucpress.edu/RicciFascism





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Lolita Guevarra

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University of California Press

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