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Italian ColonialismThe Italian Colonial Cinema: Agendas and Audiences

Italian Colonialism: The Italian Colonial Cinema: Agendas and Audiences [Since the early 1990s, research on European colonialism has highlighted the ways that states have relied on the exercise of cultural technologies to govern native populations and make imperial territories serve larger projects of modernization and nation-building.1 The cinema must be counted among these cultural technologies, and both democracies and dictatorships employed it to facilitate imperialist projects of charting and policing territories, races, and national and social identities.2 The relationship of cinema and colonialism thus encompasses not only the making of films on colonial themes but allows us to explore the importance of the category of the visual within colonial culture, the ways that colonial images legitimized metropolitan discourses about class, nation, and gender, and how cinematic representations helped to shape popular and ethnographic conceptions of the primitive.3] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Italian ColonialismThe Italian Colonial Cinema: Agendas and Audiences

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series
Editors: Ben-Ghiat, Ruth; Fuller, Mia
Ben-Ghiat, Ruth
Italian Colonialism — Feb 17, 2016
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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2005
ISBN
978-0-230-60636-4
Pages
179 –191
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4039-8158-5_16
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Abstract

[Since the early 1990s, research on European colonialism has highlighted the ways that states have relied on the exercise of cultural technologies to govern native populations and make imperial territories serve larger projects of modernization and nation-building.1 The cinema must be counted among these cultural technologies, and both democracies and dictatorships employed it to facilitate imperialist projects of charting and policing territories, races, and national and social identities.2 The relationship of cinema and colonialism thus encompasses not only the making of films on colonial themes but allows us to explore the importance of the category of the visual within colonial culture, the ways that colonial images legitimized metropolitan discourses about class, nation, and gender, and how cinematic representations helped to shape popular and ethnographic conceptions of the primitive.3]

Published: Feb 17, 2016

Keywords: Colonial Authority; Colonial Society; Movie Camera; Colonial Culture; Popular Film

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