The Maciste films of Italian silent cinema
By: Jacqueline Reich ; with an appendix by Claudia Gianetto (head of film archive) and Stella Dagna (film archivist),Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Turin, Italy
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780253017451; 9780253017406
Subjects: Motion pictures; Criticism and interpretation; Masculinity in motion pictures; History
Notes: Appendix translated from the Italian.

Filmography.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-394) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Why Maciste?; title: The birth of the strongman: Italian silent cinema, stardom, and genre; title: From slave to master: Cabiria (1914) and Maciste (1915); title: Maciste goes to war: Maciste Alpino (1916); title: Over there: the Maciste series, World War I, and American film culture; title: Love, labor, and leadership: the Maciste series and modernity, 1919-1922; title: Muscling the nation: Benito Mussolini and the Maciste films of the 1920s; title: Conclusion: The giant of the Dolomites and beyond; title: Appendix by Claudia Gianetto and Stella Dagna, translated by Maria Elena d'Amelio; title: Part 1: The restoration of the maciste series; title: Part 2: Maciste: in focus; title: Part 3: Filmography.