Ruth Ben-Ghiat provides the first in-depth study of feature and documentary films produced under the auspices of Mussolini s government that took as their subjects or settings Italy s African and Balkan colonies. These "empire films" were Italy's entry into an international market for the exotic. Th[...]
Ruth Ben-Ghiat's innovative cultural history of Mussolini's dictatorship is a provocative discussion of the meanings of modernity in interwar Italy. Eloquent, pathbreaking, and deft in its use of a broad range of materials, this work argues that fascism appealed to many Italian intellectuals as a ne[...]