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Schooling in Modernity: The Politics of Sponsored Films in Postwar Italy 9781442669475
Table of contents :
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One. Work, Welfare, Neorealism
Chapter Two. Sneaky Sponsors
Chapter Three. Filming the Housing Revolution
Chapter Four. South Like North
Chapter Five. “United Europe Starts in School”
Chapter Six. Histories through Tabloids
Filmography
Notes
Film Catalogues
Bibliography
Index
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SCHOOLING IN MODERNITY The Politics of Sponsored Films in Postwar Italy
Between 1948 and the end of the 1950s, Italian and American government agencies and corporations commissioned hundreds of short films for domestic consumption and for export on topics such as the fight against unemployment, the reconstruction and transformation of rural and urban spaces, and the re-establishment of democratic regimes in Italy and the rest of western Europe. In Schooling in Modernity, Paola Bonifazio investigates the ways in which these sponsored films promoted a particular vision of modernization and industry, and functioned as tools to govern the Italian people. The author uses extensive archival research and various theoretical approaches to examine the politics of sponsored filmmaking in postwar Italy. Among
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Cinema of Italy
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