The Lice and the Whale: Filmmakers, Militant Cinema, and the Italian Communist Party

Fantoni, Gianluca

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-69197-4_7

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“…Generally, the party backed those films whose content could be most easily associated with Communist propaganda and would refer to these in their internal documents as ‘ film democratici ’ (democratic films). Gianluca Fantoni (2021, 21) explains that this is an expression that Communist officials used in their internal documents to label those Italian films whose content could easily be associated with Communist propaganda.…”

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Modernity and consumer culture in Visconti's early films

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2023

Mod. Italy

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Luchino Visconti is widely recognised as a high-culture director. However, in his films of the period 1943–63 there was a firm engagement with consumer culture and modernity in terms of themes, characters and references. This article explores this often overlooked dimension in Visconti's films by analysing a number of key sequences and moments that relate directly to consumption, consumer culture, leisure, modernity, Americanisation and youth culture. The analysis shows how these representations related to the ongoing changes in Italian postwar society and to incoming Americanisation in particular. My research is informed by the work of Gary Cross, Victoria De Grazia and Emanuela Scarpellini on consumer culture and contextualises how Visconti's referencing of consumer culture and modernity was received by the PCI (Partito Comunista Italiano or Italian Communist Party).

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Section: Cinema and Aspirations In Bellissimamentioning

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Modernity and consumer culture in Visconti's early films

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2023

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The Lice and the Whale: Filmmakers, Militant Cinema, and the Italian Communist Party

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