The intersection between film stardom and politics is an understudied phenomenon of Fascist Italy, despite the fact that the Mussolini regime deemed stardom important enough to warrant sustained attention and interference. Focused on the period from the start of sound cinema to the final end of Fascism in 1945, this book examines the development of an Italian star system and evaluates its place in film production and distribution. The performances and careers of several major stars, including Isa Miranda, Vittorio De Sica, Amedeo Nazzari, and Alida Valli, are closely analyzed in terms of their relationships to the political sphere and broader commercial culture, with consideration of their fates in the aftermath of Fascism. A final chapter explores the place of the stars in popular memory and representations of the Fascist film world in postwar cinema.
Tabella dei contenuti
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Fascism, Cinema and Stardom
Chapter 1. Italian cinema under Fascism
Chapter 2. The creation of a star system
Chapter 3. Stars and commercial culture
Chapter 4. The public and the stars
Part II: Italian Stars of the Fascist Era
Chapter 5. The national star: Isa Miranda
Chapter 6. The matinée idol: Vittorio De Sica
Chapter 7. Everybody’s fiancée: Assia Noris
Chapter 8. The star as hero: Amedeo Nazzari
Chapter 9. The uniformed role model: Fosco Giachetti
Chapter 10. The photogenic beauty: Alida Valli
Chapter 11. The Duce’s whim: Miria Di San Servolo
Part III: The Aftermath of Stardom
Chapter 12. Civil war, liberation and reconstruction
Chapter 13. Survival, memory and forgetting
Bibliography
Index
Circa l’autore
Stephen Gundle is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick. His books include Between Hollywood and Moscow: the Italian Communists and the Challenge of Mass Culture, 1943-91 (2000), Bellissima: Feminine Beauty and the Idea of Italy (2007), Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War (2008, with David Forgacs), Glamour: A History (2008) and Death and the Dolce Vita: The Dark Side of Rome in the 1950s (2011). He is co-editor, with Christopher Duggan and Giuliana Pieri, of The Cult of the Duce: Mussolini and the Italians (2013).
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