The Rise and Fall of the Italian Film Industry / Edition 1

by Marina Nicoli

Overview

Italian cinema triumphed globally in the 1960, but by the end of the 1980s the Italian film industry was all but dead. This book traces the rise of the industry from its origins in the 19^th century to its worldwide success in the 1960s, and its rapid decline in the subsequent decades. It does so by looking at cinema as an institution – subject to the interplay between the spheres of art, business, and politics at the national and international level.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138790056
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/02/2016
Series:	Routledge International Studies in Business History , #35
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Marina Nicoli is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management at Bocconi University, Italy.

Table of Contents

Part 1: The Early Making of an Industry

1. The "Thinkability" of the Cinema: Is it Art or is it a Business?

2. Cinemania: Entrepreneurs and Would-Be Producers

Part 2: The Design of a "Powerful Weapon": Cinema under Fascism

3. The Visible Hand: A Way to the Cinematic Renaissance

4. "We can be like Hollywood"

Part 3: Building the Cinematic Miracle: Cinema under Democracy

5. Multiple Actors and the Re-Birth of an Industry

6. Entrepreneurial Efforts in the Worldwide Race

7. Drawing the Crowds: Box Office Miracles

Part 4: "Shooting the Miracle"

8. Towards Obscurity

9. Conclusions