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Italy through the Red Lens

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-69197-4

ISBN: 978-3-030-69196-7

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Apr 9, 2021

1 - 10 of 12 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction

Fantoni, Gianluca

Pages: 1 –15

[The introduction illustrates the book’s content, structure, and main theses. It argues that the corpus of films produced by the Italian Communist Party in the post-war years represents a last and most sustained attempt made by an Italian political organization to systematically use the medium of...
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Togliatti’s Partito nuovo and Italian Cinema

Fantoni, Gianluca

Pages: 19 –43

[This chapter deals with the PCI’s history during the early post-war years and engages with the historiography of the Italian Communist Party. The chapter focuses especially on three issues, which have been the object of extensive scholarly investigations: the relationship between the PCI and...
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Socialist Realism Italian-Style: PCI Cinematic Propaganda in the Stalin Era

Fantoni, Gianluca

Pages: 45 –87

[This chapter concerns the PCI’s early production, from 1946 until 1951, when the cinematic effort of the PCI came to a halt. The chapter discusses the reasons for the momentary demise of Communist cinematography. It also offers a comprehensive analysis of quite heterogenous a cinematic material....
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Peace and Sputnik, the Boom, and Television (1956–1964)

Fantoni, Gianluca

Pages: 91 –114

[This chapter deals with Communist propaganda films from 1958, when production was resumed, to 1964, when the PCI decided to establish a proper film production company, Unitelefilm. The diffusion of television broadcasting played a major role in this decision. The chapter deals with quite diverse...
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The First Years of Unitelefilm and the PCI After Togliatti (1964–1967)

Fantoni, Gianluca

Pages: 115 –138

[This chapter concerns Unitelefilm’s early production, from 1964 to 1967. First, the chapter briefly illustrates Unitelefilm’s management and production context and discusses at length L’Italia con Togliatti (Italy with Togliatti), a documentary covering the funeral of the Party leader Palmiro...
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The Workers, the Students, and the Election Campaign of 1968

Fantoni, Gianluca

Pages: 139 –157

[The chapter analyses the Terzo canale experiment, which entailed the production of newsreels. Borrowing stylistic features from direct cinema and Cinéma-vérité, the Terzo canale bulletins featured issues such as the Vietnam War, Fascist dictatorships in Europe, and the life of working women. An...
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The Lice and the Whale: Filmmakers, Militant Cinema, and the Italian Communist Party

Fantoni, Gianluca

Pages: 159 –175

[This chapter offers an analysis of some of the films that were produced within the Italian militant cinema movement, between the late 1960s and the early 1970s, with a particular focus on those produced by Unitelefilm. It argues that the development of militant cinema in Italy should be read in...
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The Early 1970s: Unitelefilm, the Fascist Threat, and the ‘Historic Compromise’

Fantoni, Gianluca

Pages: 179 –201

[The chapter analyses the films produced by the PCI in the first half of the 1970s. A few notable films were produced in this period, including Trevico—Torino, by renowned filmmaker Ettore Scola. The virulent political campaign unleashed by the neo-Fascist MSI allowed the Communist Party to...
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Hegemony Within Reach (1974–1976)

Fantoni, Gianluca

Pages: 203 –222

[The chapter discusses the cultural and political developments at the mid-1970s. The rise of radical political groups to the left of the PCI allowed the PCI to present itself as a non-extremist, reassuring, and law-abiding political party. The cinematic campaign designed by the PCI in view of the...
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Women’s Issues, Feminism, and the PCI

Fantoni, Gianluca

Pages: 223 –242

[This chapter traces the party’s cinematographic engagement with women from the foundation of Unitelefilm onwards, and draws some conclusions regarding the evolution of the Italian Communist outlook on women’s issues. Because it was designed to address Communist, and increasingly from the 1970s,...

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