The Maciste Films of Italian Silent Cinema /
Italian film star Bartolomeo Pagano's "Maciste" played a key role in his nation's narratives of identity during World War I and after. Jacqueline Reich traces the racial, class, and national transformations undergone by this Italian strongman from African slave in Cabiria (1914),...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2015]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Why Maciste?
- The birth of the strongman: Italian silent cinema, stardom, and genre
- From slave to master: Cabiria (1914) and Maciste (1915)
- Maciste goes to war: Maciste Alpino (1916)
- Over there: the Maciste series, World War I, and American film culture
- Love, labor, and leadership: the Maciste series and modernity, 1919-1922
- Muscling the nation: Benito Mussolini and the Maciste films of the 1920s
- Conclusion: The giant of the Dolomites and beyond
- Appendix by Claudia Gianetto and Stella Dagna, translated by Maria Elena d'Amelio
- Part 1: The restoration of the maciste series
- Part 2: Maciste: in focus
- Part 3: Filmography.