{"product_id":"mussolinis-dream-factory-film-stardom-in-fascist-italy-9781782382447","title":"Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“In this excellent study of film stars under Fascism, Stephen Gundle explores the tenuous relationship between the film industry and Mussolini’s regime through the lens of film stars and discovers that, like so many other aspects of the Fascist era, this was yet another example of the regime’s inability to fully fascistize society…The achievement of Gundle’s book is to demonstrate the complexity and nuances of the film stars’ lives under Mussolini’s dictatorship.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e· European History Quarterly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“\u003c\/em\u003eMussolini’s Dream Factory \u003cem\u003eis a meticulously researched study, drawing extensively on primary and secondary Italian language sources and providing a wealth of information to support further research.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e· Celebrity Studies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eGundle has written the book that will become a standard in the fields of historiography on Italian Fascism, Italian Fascist cinema and film scholarship on star culture. The mixture of intimate sources such as diaries, letters and photographs with exhaustive archival material breathes life into this period, allowing us new and necessary insight on this complicated era of cinematic and Italian history\u003c\/em\u003e.” \u003cstrong\u003e· Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eThis is an outstanding book in every respect. It is beautifully written, clear, concise, no professional jargon, yet based on a confident grasp of all the relevant criticism as well as primary sources in a number of languages… It is high time that a complete revision of our thinking on Italian cinema under fascism takes place, and this book represents a giant step in this direction\u003c\/em\u003e.” \u003cstrong\u003e· Peter Bondanella\u003c\/strong\u003e, Emeritus, Indiana University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eI thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. It is obviously a study written with great enthusiasm for its subject—Italian stardom. The work covers a wide terrain involving the nature of the regime as it entails cinema, examines the roles that the fascist state played from the late 1920s to the early 1940s (and shortly thereafter), designating the figures responsible for its development and implementation, the producers and film directors who played a major role, and most central for the study, the evolution of the star system over the course of the twenty years of the regime\u003c\/em\u003e.” \u003cstrong\u003e· Marcia Landy\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Pittsburgh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart I: Fascism, Cinema and Stardom\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Italian cinema under Fascism\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e The creation of a star system\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Stars and commercial culture\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e The public and the stars\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart II: Italian Stars of the Fascist Era\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe national star: Isa Miranda\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe matinée idol: Vittorio De Sica\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Everybody's fiancée: Assia Noris\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe star as hero: Amedeo Nazzari\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e The uniformed role model:  Fosco Giachetti\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e The photogenic beauty: Alida Valli\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Duce's whim: Miria Di San Servolo\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart III:  The Aftermath of Stardom\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12. \u003c\/strong\u003eCivil war, liberation and reconstruction\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/strong\u003e Survival, memory and forgetting\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042212774231,"sku":"9781782382447","price":96.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781782382447.jpg?v=1750953467","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mussolinis-dream-factory-film-stardom-in-fascist-italy-9781782382447","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}