Mussolini at the movies : fascism, film, and culture / Jacqueline Reich -- Dubbing l'arte muta : poetic layerings around Italian cinema's transition to sound / Giorgio Bertellini -- Intimations of neo-realism in the fascist Ventennio / ennio di Nolfo -- Placing cinema, fascism, and the nation in a diagram of Italian modernity / James Hay -- Sex in the cinema : regulation and transgression in Italian films, 1930-1943 / David Forgacs -- Luchino Visconti's (homosexual) Ossessione / William Van Watson -- Ways of looking in black and white : female spectatorship and the miscege-national body in Sotto la croce del sud / Robin Pickering-Iazzi -- Seeing red : the Soviet influence on Italian cinema in the thirties / Piero Garofalo -- Theatricality and impersonation : the politics of style in the cinema of the Italian fascist era / Marcia Landy -- Shopping for autarchy : fascism and reproductive fantasy in Mario Camerini's Grandi magazzini / Barbara Spackman -- The last film festival : the Venice Biennale goes to war / Marla Stone -- Film stars and society in fascist Italy / Stephen Gundle.