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Italian Fascism's Empire Cinema By Ruth Ben-Ghiat Indiana University Press, $35
Italian Fascism's Empire Cinema is the first study in English of how Mussolini's regime manufactured a celluloid fantasy to convince contemporary Italians that they were the worthy descendants and Inheritors of an ancient empire and protagonists of a new one. Fascist empire cinema claimed that both its new politics and new cinema were the embodiment of modernity.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat renders an invaluable service in rescuing these films from oblivion, as...