Stephen Gundle is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick. His books include Between Hollywood and Moscow: the Italian Communists and the Challenge of Mass Culture, 1943-91 (2000), Bellissima: Feminine Beauty and the Idea of Italy (2007), Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War (2008, with David Forgacs), Glamour: A History (2008) and Death and the Dolce Vita: The Dark Side of Rome in the 1950s (2011). He is co-editor, with Christopher Duggan and Giuliana Pieri, of The Cult of the Duce: Mussolini and the Italians (2013).

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Introduction

Part I: Fascism, Cinema and Stardom

Chapter 1. Italian cinema under Fascism
Chapter 2. The creation of a star system
Chapter 3. Stars and commercial culture
Chapter 4. The public and the stars

Part II: Italian Stars of the Fascist Era

Chapter 5. The national star: Isa Miranda
Chapter 6. The matinée idol: Vittorio De Sica
Chapter 7. Everybody's fiancée: Assia Noris
Chapter 8. The star as hero: Amedeo Nazzari
Chapter 9. The uniformed role model: Fosco Giachetti
Chapter 10. The photogenic beauty: Alida Valli
Chapter 11. The Duce's whim: Miria Di San Servolo

Part III: The Aftermath of Stardom

Chapter 12. Civil war, liberation and reconstruction
Chapter 13. Survival, memory and forgetting

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