The Maciste Films of Italian Silent Cinema - Brossura

Reich, Jacqueline

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0253017459 ISBN 13: 9780253017451

Casa editrice: Indiana Univ Pr, 2015

Riassunto

Italian film star Bartolomeo Pagano's "Maciste" played a key role in his nation’s narratives of identity during World War I and after. Jacqueline Reich traces the racial, class, and national transformations undergone by this Italian strongman from African slave in Cabiria (1914), his first film, to bourgeois gentleman, to Alpine soldier of the Great War, to colonial officer in Italy's African adventures. Reich reveals Maciste as a figure who both reflected classical ideals of masculine beauty and virility (later taken up by Mussolini and used for political purposes) and embodied the model Italian citizen. The 12 films at the center of the book, recently restored and newly accessible to a wider public, together with relevant extra-cinematic materials, provide a rich resource for understanding the spread of discourses on masculinity, and national and racial identities during a turbulent period in Italian history. The volume includes an illustrated appendix documenting the restoration and preservation of these cinematic treasures.

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L'autore

Jacqueline Reich is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University. She is author of Beyond the Latin Lover (IUP, 2004) and Re-Viewing Fascism (IUP, 2002).

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Indiana Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0253017459
• ISBN 13: 9780253017451
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 414