UID:
almafu_9961152792202883
Format:
1 online resource (219 p.)
ISBN:
1-135-89497-3
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1-135-89496-5
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1-281-93121-7
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9786611931216
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0-203-88488-4
Series Statement:
Routledge advances in film studies ; 3
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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
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ConclusionsNotes; Bibliography; Filmography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-88778-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-96287-0
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203884881
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