Envisioning Modernity: Desire and Discipline in the Italian Fascist Film

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Previous articleNext article No AccessEnvisioning Modernity: Desire and Discipline in the Italian Fascist FilmRuth Ben-GhiatRuth Ben-Ghiat Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Critical Inquiry Volume 23, Number 1Autumn, 1996 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/448823 Views: 23Total views on this site Citations: 30Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1996 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Gianmarco Mancosu Watching films in Italian East Africa (1936-41). Fascist ambitions, contradictions, and anxieties, Journal of Modern Italian Studies 26, no.33 (May 2021): 261–290.https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571X.2021.1912252Julia Adeney Thomas Introduction, (Jan 2020): 1–20.https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478004387-001Maggie Clinton Subjects of a New Visual Order, (Jan 2020): 21–43.https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478004387-002 Fascism Carved in Stone, (Jan 2020): 44–68.https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478004387-003 Nazism, Everydayness, and Spectacle, (Jan 2020): 69–93.https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478004387-004 Five Faces of Fascism, (Jan 2020): 94–110.https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478004387-005 Face Time with Hitler, (Jan 2020): 111–133.https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478004387-006 Seeing through Whiteness, (Jan 2020): 134–159.https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478004387-007 Japan’s War without Pictures, (Jan 2020): 160–182.https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478004387-008 Fascisms Seen and Unseen, (Jan 2020): 183–210.https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478004387-009 Youth Movements, Nazism, and War, (Jan 2020): 211–235.https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478004387-010 From Antifascism to Humanism, (Jan 2020): 236–257.https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478004387-011 Heedless Oblivion, (Jan 2020): 258–283.https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478004387-012 Conclusion, (Jan 2020): 284–292.https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478004387-013 Bibliography, (Jan 2020): 293–315.https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478004387-014Giulia Evolvi The Myth of Catholic Italy in Post-Fascist Newsreels, Media History 24, no.11 (Jul 2016): 71–85.https://doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2016.1207510Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto Art of Darkness: The Aestheticization of Black People in Fascist Colonial Novels, (Jan 2015): 25–56.https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137481863_2Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto Fade to White: Cinematic Representations of Italian Whiteness, (Jan 2015): 93–130.https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137481863_4Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto Conclusion, (Jan 2015): 171–181.https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137481863_6 Colonies, (Mar 2014): 67–138.https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107280441.003Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto Blaxploitation Italian Style, (Jan 2012): 191–203.https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137281463_13Mark Hayward Good workers: television documentary, migration and the Italian nation, 1956–1964, Modern Italy 16, no.11 (Feb 2016): 3–17.https://doi.org/10.1080/13532941003683021Áine O'Healy '[Non] è una somala': Deconstructing African femininity in Italian film, The Italianist 29, no.22 (Jul 2013): 175–198.https://doi.org/10.1179/026143409X12488561926306Ruth Ben-Ghiat Unmaking the fascist man: masculinity, film and the transition from dictatorship, Journal of Modern Italian Studies 10, no.33 (Sep 2005): 336–365.https://doi.org/10.1080/13545710500188361Cristina Lombardi-Diop Pioneering Female Modernity: Fascist Women in Colonial Africa, (Jan 2005): 145–154.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-8158-5_13Ruth Ben-Ghiat The Italian Colonial Cinema: Agendas and Audiences, (Jan 2005): 179–191.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-8158-5_16Virginia Picchietti Crossing the Line: Gender Transgressions in Three Italian Films, Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies 38, no.11 (Jul 2016): 115–137.https://doi.org/10.1177/001458580403800105Ruth Ben-Ghiat The Italian colonial cinema: Agendas and audiences, Modern Italy 8, no.11 (May 2003): 49–63.https://doi.org/10.1080/1353294032000074070Charles Burdett Italian Fascism and Utopia, History of the Human Sciences 16, no.11 (Jul 2016): 93–108.https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695103016001008Charles Burdett Journeys to Italian East Africa 1936–1941: narratives of settlement, Journal of Modern Italian Studies 5, no.22 (Dec 2010): 207–226.https://doi.org/10.1080/13545710050084359