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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Lorenzo FabbriPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.397kg ISBN: 9781517910846ISBN 10: 1517910846 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 19 December 2023 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviews"""Lorenzo Fabbri's book demonstrates how Italian fascism wielded the cinematic apparatus to mobilize Italians as a racialized assemblage who would identify with the regime's myriad colonizing projects at home and abroad. That same apparatus was amenable to being hijacked by the resistance (embodied by Visconti and De Sica) to formulate plural, anti-fascist ways of living. A refreshing and beautifully written work, Cinema Is the Strongest Weapon adds considerable nuance to our understandings of how Fascism works, and is actively contested, through film.""--Rhiannon Noel Welch, author of Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy ""A richly researched and politically urgent exploration of how cinema under Mussolini worked to assemble Italians into a fascist collectivity mobilized less by ideological consent than racial affect. By attending to filmmaking as race-making, from Luigi Pirandello to Roberto Rossellini, Lorenzo Fabbri illuminates how--building on liberal policies of internal colonization and external colonialism--Italian fascism embarked on a biopolitical project to forge a unified, 'whitened' body politic committed to a melodramatic brand of imperialism. Cinema Is the Strongest Weapon unsettles film histories and theories that pivot on the 'Year Zero' of Italian neorealism, challenging us to rethink the entanglements of race, media, and authoritarianism while also attending to how cinema could be made useless for fascism.""--Alberto Toscano, author of Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism, and the Politics of Crisis" Author InformationLorenzo Fabbri is an Imagine Fund Arts, Humanities, and Design Chair at the University of Minnesota. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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