Post-war Italian cinema : American intervention, Vatican interests

Post-war Italian cinema : American intervention, Vatican interests / by Daniela Treveri Gennari.

This book focuses on the involvement of the United States and the Vatican in the Italian film industry between 1945 and 1960.€Gennari analyzes the€tensions between economic (film industry), political (government) and ideological pressures.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Treveri Gennari, Daniela
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2009.
Series:Routledge advances in film studies ; 3.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Italy > History.
Motion pictures, America > Italy.
Motion pictures > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Motion pictures
Motion pictures, American
Motion pictures > Religious aspects > Catholic Church
Amerikanisierung
Film
Italy
Italien
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 You Can Be Like Us: American Intervention in Italian Reconstruction; 2 Roman Catholicism, Americanism and Americanisation: Ideology, Politics and Cultural Propaganda; 3 The State, Cinema Legislation and American Interests; 4 Endemic Propaganda: Catholic Production, Exhibition and Criticism; 5 Dispelling the Myth: The Popularity of American and Italian Cinema in Post-War Italy and the Response of the Catholic Church; 6 Gender Roles, the Church and the Allure of Modernity in American and Italian Films.

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