Italy through the red lens : Italian politics and society in Communist propaganda films (1946-79) / Gianluca Fantoni.
Fantoni, Gianluca, author.
2021
HX550.M65
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Title
Italy through the red lens : Italian politics and society in Communist propaganda films (1946-79) / Gianluca Fantoni.
Author
Fantoni, Gianluca, author.
ISBN
9783030691974 (electronic bk.)
3030691977 (electronic bk.)
9783030691967
3030691969
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69197-4
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-69197-4 doi
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HX550.M65
Dewey Decimal Classification
791.430945
Summary
This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the role of cinema in the communication strategy of the Italian Communist party (the PCI). It examines the entire period during which the party had a systematic and organized approach to cinematographic production, starting with the early experiments in 1946 and concluding with the closure of PCI film company Unitelefilm at the end of the 1970s. Its analysis sheds light on a range of issues, such as the relationship between the party and Italian intellectuals, the Stalinist imprint of the Italian Communist Party and the historical significance of the Salerno turn, the PCIs relationship with the student movements in 1968 and 1977, and the PCIs response to the rise in political violence in the 1970s. Ultimately, the book demonstrates that cinema was essential to the PCIs propaganda effort.
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Italian and Italian American studies (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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1. Introduction
Part I The Italian Communist Party between Socialist Realism and Neorealism (19441956)
2. Togliattis Partito nuovo and Italian cinema
3. Socialist Realism Italian-Style: PCI Cinematic Propaganda in the Stalin Era
Part II Dealing with The Modern (19561970)
4. Peace and Sputnik, the Boom, and Television (19561964)
5. The First Years of Unitelefilm and the PCI After Togliatti (19641967)
6. The Workers, the Students, and The Election Campaign of 1968
7. The Lice and the Whale: Filmmakers, Militant Cinema and the Italian Communist Party
Part III A Decade of Living Dangerously: The Turbulent Peak (and the Seeds of Decline) of the Italian Communist Party (19701979)
8. The Early 1970s: Unitelefilm, the Fascist Threat, and the Historic Compromise
9. Hegemony Within Reach (19741976)
10. Womens Issues, Feminism, and the PCI
11. Hegemony Fades Away (19771979)
12. Conclusion.

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