Schooling in Modernity
Subtitle: The Politics of Sponsored Films in Postwar Italy
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781442615984
Subjects: Documentary films; Film criticism; Motion pictures, political aspects; Motion pictures, italy
Description: "Between 1948 and the end of the 1950s, Italian and American government agencies and corporations commissioned hundreds of short films for domestic and foreign consumption on topics such as the fight against unemployment, the transformation of rural and urban spaces, and the re-establishment of democratic regimes in Italy and throughout Europe. In Schooling in Modernity, Paola Bonifazio investigates the ways in which these sponsored films promoted a particular vision of modernization and industry and functioned as tools to govern the Italian people.