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Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinema

Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinema Ruth Ben-Ghiat Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 2015, 420 pp., $35.00 paper ISBN: 978-0253015594

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Notes

  1. The most important city films included Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler’s Manhatta (1921), Alberto Cavalcanti’s Rien que les heures (1926), Walter Ruttmann’s “Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis” (1927), Dziga Vertov’s “Man with a Movie Camera” (1929), and Joris Ivens’ “Rain” (1929).

  2. Sentinelle di bronzo/Dusky Sentinels, dir. Romolo Marcellini. Italy, Generalcine-Fono Roma, 1937.

  3. L’Esclave blanc/The White Slave, dir. Augusto Genina. France-Germany, Lothar-Stark Film/Wolfe Productions, 1927.

  4. For similar colonial plots in 19th century novels, see my discussion of the character René in Friedrich Gerstäcker’s Tahiti (1852), in Steinmetz (2007, pp. 284–288).

  5. Scipione l’Aficano, dir. Carmine Gallone. Italy, Ente Nazionale Industrie Cinematografiche, 1937.

  6. Another book that deals with the Fascist regime’s “engagement with and exploitation of the heritage of Ancient Rome” is Arthurs (2012).

  7. Richard Thurnwald’s Nazi colonial program, for example, differed only superficially from British colonial policies of indirect rule (Steinmetz, 2014).

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Steinmetz, G. Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinema . Am J Cult Sociol 6, 212–222 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-016-0007-5

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