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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782430203321

Autore

Treveri Gennari Daniela

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2009

ISBN

1-135-89497-3

1-135-89496-5

1-281-93121-7

9786611931216

0-203-88488-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Collana

Routledge advances in film studies ; ; 3

Disciplina

791.430945/09045

791.43094509045

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Italy - History

Motion pictures, American - Italy

Motion pictures - Religious aspects - Catholic Church

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-184) and index.

Includes filmography: p. [185]-188.

Nota di contenuto

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

ConclusionsNotes; Bibliography; Filmography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Through a comparative approach of current theories developed on ideology and an analysis of official documents from the Vatican and the United States Department of State, the book investigates the decisive



role that American production companies played in the development of the Italian film industry and their links to the Vatican. This analysis evaluates how the Italian production and distribution industries satisfied the American political and economic interests. American political and cultural ideology of the post-1945 era, is compared with the Roman Catholic ideology in order to assess t