Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

A New Guide to Italian CinemaThe Fascist Years (1922–43)

A New Guide to Italian Cinema: The Fascist Years (1922–43) 1921 Founding of Italian Fascist Party and Italian Communist Party. 1922 Fascist March on Rome Victor Emanuel III invites Fascist leader Benito Mussolini to form a government as prime minister 1924 Giacomo Matteotti, Socialist parliamentarian, murdered by Fascists Secession of the Aventine, opposition parties abandon the parliamentary hall to protest Fascist policies. 1925 Mussolini assumes responsibility for the Matteotti murder, further steps to dictatorhip 1926 Autarkical economic system: Quota 90 assigns value of 1 British Pound Sterling equal to 90 Italian Lire 1928 The Statuto Albertino, the Kingdom of Italy Piedmontese era constitution is attenuated 1929 Lateran accords/Concordat between Fascist state and Roman Catholic Church 1935 Invasion of Abyssinia and Ethiopia prompting League of Nations economic sanctions 1936 Aid to Falangists (Francisco Franco) in Spanish Civil War Mussolini refers to an “Axis” between Fascist Italy and Hitler’s Nazi Reich in Germany in November 1 speech 1937 Communist leader Antonio Gramsci dies shortly after release from prison Italy leaves the League of Nations 1938 Mussolini takes no action against German annexation of Austria. Leggi razziali (racial statutes) restrictions on the civil liberties of Italy’s Jewish population 1939 Italy occupies Albania with Mussolini’s son-in-law Galeazzo Ciano as regent Pact of Steel http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A New Guide to Italian CinemaThe Fascist Years (1922–43)

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series
Celli, Carlo; Cottino-Jones, Marga
Springer Journals — Oct 6, 2015
Download PDF
19 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/springer-journals/a-new-guide-to-italian-cinema-the-fascist-years-1922-43-2ENzIgW8jL
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2007
ISBN
978-1-4039-7565-2
Pages
19 –38
DOI
10.1057/9780230601826_2
Publisher site
See Chapter on Publisher Site

Abstract

1921 Founding of Italian Fascist Party and Italian Communist Party. 1922 Fascist March on Rome Victor Emanuel III invites Fascist leader Benito Mussolini to form a government as prime minister 1924 Giacomo Matteotti, Socialist parliamentarian, murdered by Fascists Secession of the Aventine, opposition parties abandon the parliamentary hall to protest Fascist policies. 1925 Mussolini assumes responsibility for the Matteotti murder, further steps to dictatorhip 1926 Autarkical economic system: Quota 90 assigns value of 1 British Pound Sterling equal to 90 Italian Lire 1928 The Statuto Albertino, the Kingdom of Italy Piedmontese era constitution is attenuated 1929 Lateran accords/Concordat between Fascist state and Roman Catholic Church 1935 Invasion of Abyssinia and Ethiopia prompting League of Nations economic sanctions 1936 Aid to Falangists (Francisco Franco) in Spanish Civil War Mussolini refers to an “Axis” between Fascist Italy and Hitler’s Nazi Reich in Germany in November 1 speech 1937 Communist leader Antonio Gramsci dies shortly after release from prison Italy leaves the League of Nations 1938 Mussolini takes no action against German annexation of Austria. Leggi razziali (racial statutes) restrictions on the civil liberties of Italy’s Jewish population 1939 Italy occupies Albania with Mussolini’s son-in-law Galeazzo Ciano as regent Pact of Steel

Published: Oct 6, 2015

Keywords: Postwar Period; Film Industry; Happy Ending; American Film; Hollywood Film

There are no references for this article.