2022/2023 Fall Term
Depiction of Fascism in Italian Cinema
- Bondanella, Peter, "Amarcord," Chapter 5 of his The Films of Federico Fellini (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp.117-139.
- Bondanella, Peter, "Amarcord: Fellini & Politics," Cinéaste, 19/1 (1992), pp.36-43, 32.
- Burke, Frank, Marguerite Waller and Marita Gubareva (eds.), A Companion to Federico Fellini (Hoboken and Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2020)
- Fellini, Federico, "My Rimini," Aperture, No.172 (Fall 2003), pp.24-37.
- Hirsch, Foster, " Review of Amarcord," Film Quarterly, 29/1 (Autumn 1975), pp.50-52.
- Minghelli, Giuliana, "Amarcord/Am'l'arcord: Fascism, Memory and the Visual in Federico Fellini and Renzo Renzi," Italica, 97/4 (Winter 2020), pp.848-878.
- Parshall, Peter F., "Fellini's Thematic Structuring: Patterns of Fascism in Amarcord," Film Criticism, 7/2 (Winter 1983), pp.19-30.
- Provincia di Rimini, Asserserato al Turismo, Amarcord: In Rimini with Federico Fellini (Rimini: Provincia di Rimini, Asserserato al Turismo, n.d.)
- Baxa, Paul, "Capturing the Fascist Moment: Hitler's Visit to Italy in 1938 and the Radicalization of Fascist Italy," Journal of Contemporary History, 42/2 (April 2007), pp.227-242.
- Benadusi, Lorenzo, "Private Life and Public Morals: Fascism and the 'Problem' of Homosexuality," Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, 5/2 (Autumn 2004), pp.171-204.
- Lichtner, Giacomo, "Ettore Scola's Ordinary Day," Chapter 8 of his Fascism in Italian Cinema since 1945: The Politics and Aesthetics of Memory (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp.154-168.
- Marcus, Millicent, "Un'ora e mezzo particolare: Teaching Fascism with Ettore Scola," Italica, 83/1 (Spring 2006), pp.53-61.
- Rigoletto, Sergio, "Undoing Genre, Undoing Masculinity," Chapter 4 of his Masculinity and Italian Cinema: Sexual Politics, Social Conflict and Male Crisis in the 1970s (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014), pp.71-100.
- Yakir, Dan, "Ettore Scola," Film Comment, 19/2 (March-April 1983), pp.41-43.
- Chiampi, James T., "Policing the Secret: Alberto Moravia's Il conformista," Italica, 81/2 (Summer 2004), pp.200-220.
- Flanagan, Frances, "Time, History, and Fascism in Bertolucci's Films," The European Legacy, 4/1 (1999), pp.89-98.
- Marini, Alessandro, "Conscience and Fractures of Dialogue in Il conformista by Bernardo Bertolucci," The Modern Language Review, 113/4 (October 2018), pp.742-752.
- Mellen, Joan, "Fascism in the Contemporary Film," Film Quarterly, 24/4 (Summer 1971), pp.2-19.
- Nichols, Bill, "Il conformista," Cinéaste, 4/4 (Spring 1971), pp.19-23.
- Rigoletto, Sergio, "Contesting National Memory: Male Dilemmas and Oedipal Scenarios," Chapter 3 of his Masculinity and Italian Cinema: Sexual Politics, Social Conflict and Male Crisis in the 1970s (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014), pp.45-70.
- Wagstaff, Christopher, "Forty-Seven Shots of Bertolucci's Il conformista," The Italianist, 2/1 (1982), pp.76-101.
- Wagstaff, Christopher, "The Construction of Point of View in Bertolucci's Il conformista," The Italianist, 3/1 (1983), pp.64-71.
- Wood, Sharon, "Religion, Politics and Sexuality in Moravia's Il conformista," Italian Studies, 44/1 (1989), pp.86-101.
- Bosworth, R. J. B., "Per necessitá famigliare: Hypocricy and Corruption in Fascist Italy," European History Quarterly, 30/3 (2000), pp.357-387.
- Caprotti, Federico, "Destructive Creation: Fascist Urban Planning, Architecture and New Towns in the Pontine Marshes," Journal of Historical Geography, 33 (2007), pp.651-679.
- Caprotti, Federico, "Italian Fascism between Ideology and Spectacle," Fast Capitalism, 1/2 (2005), pp.123-136.
- Caprotti, Federico and Maria Kaïka, "Producing the Ideal Fascist Landscape: Nature, Materiality and the Cinematic Representation of Land Reclamation in the Pontine Marshes," Social & Cultural Geography, 9/6 (September 2008), pp.613-634.
- Capogreco, Carlo Spartaco, Mussolini's Camps: Civilian Internment in Fascist Italy, 1940-1943 [translated by Norma Bouchard and Valerio Ferme] (London and New York: Routledge)
- Crowdus, Gary, "Francesco Rosi: Italy's Postmodern Neorealist," Cinéaste, 20/4 (1994), pp.19-25.
- Faleschini Lerner, Giovanna, "Francesco Rosi's Cristo si è fermato a Eboli: Toward a Cinema of Painting," Italica, 86/2 (Summer2009), pp.272-292.
- Foster, George M., "Review of Carlo Levi's Christ Stopped at Eboli," Boletín Bibliográfico de Anthropología Americana, 13/2 (January-December 1950), pp.45-47.
- Ginsborg, Paul, "Book Review: Did Christ Stop at Eboli?" Contemporary European History, 1/3 (November 1992), pp.335-338.
- Levi, Carlo, Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year [translated by Frances Frenaye] (New York: Time Inc., 1964)
- Beals, Carleton, "Italy's Seven Years under Mussolini," Current History, 31/3 (December 1929), pp.495-504.
- Cannistraro, Philip V., "Mussolini's Cultural Revolution: Fascist or Nationalist?" Journal of Contemporary History, 7/3-4 (July-October 1972), pp.115-139.
- Ellery, Eloise, "Fascisti Celebrate Sixth Anniversary of March on Rome," Current History, 29/3 (December 1928), pp.504-507.
- Kornfield, Louis D., "Benito Mussolini—Italy's Man of Destiny," The New York Times Current History, 17/4 (January 1923), pp.574-578.
- Martin, William, "Mussolini's Ten Years of Power," Current History, 37/1 (October 1932), pp.33-37.
(Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, 1982)
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