"The greatest film of the fascist era": the distribution of Camicia nera in Britain

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dc.contributor.authorErcole, Pierluigi
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-18T09:17:12Z
dc.date.available2018-04-18T09:17:12Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractDuring the Fascist era in Italy, the state-controlled L’Unione Cinematografica Educativa produced newsreels and documentaries promoting the regime’s achievements. By the 1930s, LUCE’s films were screened to Italian immigrant audiences abroad in order to engage spectators already sympathetic or potentially allied to the Fascist agenda. In this article, I discuss the distribution and reception in Britain of Camicia nera (1933), a film produced by LUCE to mark the tenth anniversary of Mussolini’s rise to power and often referred to as “the film of the Decennial”. Employing records retrieved from state archives and contemporary British sources from the period of the film’s release, I revisit the history of one of the most important official films of the Fascist era and offer a new perspective on the dynamics and actual applications of Italian propaganda operations abroad during the 1930s.en
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dc.identifier.citationErcole, P. (2013) '"The greatest film of the fascist era": the distribution of Camicia nera in Britain', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 6. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.6.03en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.6.03
dc.identifier.endpage50
dc.identifier.issn2009-4078
dc.identifier.issued6
dc.identifier.journalabbrevAlphaville
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage37
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/5801
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttp://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue6/HTML/ArticleErcole.html
dc.rights© 2013, The Author(s)en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectFascisten
dc.subjectItalyen
dc.subjectL’Unione Cinematografica Educativaen
dc.subjectBritainen
dc.subjectCamicia neraen
dc.subjectMussolinien
dc.subjectPropagandaen
dc.subjectLUCEen
dc.title"The greatest film of the fascist era": the distribution of Camicia nera in Britainen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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