Children in Fascist Regime Cinema: The Case of Luigi Ballerini’s La Fuggitiva (1941)
Article | Contributeur(s): Patrizia Bettella
After a sustained presence in silent movies, children almost vanish in Fascist cinema, which was dominated by the light comedies of the white telephones—a fact that clashes with the regime’s promotion of large families, population increase and the valorization of motherhood. Children begin to...