Journal title ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA
Author/s Alessandro Laloni
Publishing Year 2024 Issue 2024/306
Language Italian Pages 25 P. 112-136 File size 290 KB
DOI 10.3280/IC2024-306006
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Through the examination of the main magazines of the Italian Communist Party (“il Contemporaneo”, “Rinascita”, “Vie Nuove”) and the analysis of archival sources, the article explores the discursive practices of the Italian communists regarding cinema between the end of the Forties and the mid-Sixties, thus covering the period between the two main laws regulating the sector. The article deconstructs the historiographical image of the party as incapable of interpreting the transformations induced by the wave of neo-capitalist modernization. Moreover, it aims to demonstrate how cinema allowed Togliatti’s party to implement a coherent and nuanced plan of putting down deep roots in the cultural and economic infrastructure of the country during the Cold War years.
Keywords: Pci, cinema, cultural politics, censorship, neorealism, Hollywood
Alessandro Laloni, Per una modernizzazione alternativa. Il ruolo del cinema nella politica culturale del Partito comunista italiano (1949-1965) in "ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA" 306/2024, pp 112-136, DOI: 10.3280/IC2024-306006