Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 You Can Be Like Us: American Intervention in Italian Reconstruction; 2 Roman Catholicism, Americanism and Americanisation: Ideology, Politics and Cultural Propaganda; 3 The State, Cinema Legislation and American Interests; 4 Endemic Propaganda: Catholic Production, Exhibition and Criticism; 5 Dispelling the Myth: The Popularity of American and Italian Cinema in Post-War Italy and the Response of the Catholic Church; 6 Gender Roles, the Church and the Allure of Modernity in American and Italian Films
Summary
This book focuses on the involvement of the United States and the Vatican in the Italian film industry between 1945 and 1960.€Gennari analyzes the€tensions between economic (film industry), political (government) and ideological pressures
