Routledge Advances in Film Studies

Catholics, cinema and power: An introduction Daniel Biltereyst and Daniela Treveri Gennari Part 1: Policies 1. Resisting the lure of the modern world. Catholics, international politics, and the establishment of the International Catholic Office for Cinema (1918-1928) Guido Convents 2. The Roman Catholic Church, cinema and the âculture of dialogueâ: Italian Catholics and the movies after the Second World War Dario Edoardo Vigan² 3. The rise and fall of Catholic Hollywood, or from the Production Code to The Da Vinci Code Thomas Doherty 4. Catholicism and Mexican cinema. A secular state, a deeply conservative society and a powerful Catholic hierarchy Francisco Peredo Castro Part 2: Leaders 5. Jean Bernardâs fight for 'good' cinema in Luxembourg Paul Lesch 6. An alternative way of moralizing cinema: Father Flipoâs remedy for the Catholic Churchâs propaganda failure in France (1945-1962) M©lisande Leventopoulos 7. A triple alliance for a Catholic neorealism. Roberto Rossellini according to Felix Morlion, Giulio Andreotti and Gian Luigi Rondi Elena Dagrada Part 3: Technology and Production 8. A Catholic voice in talking pictures: the International Eidophon Company (1930-1934) Karel Dibbetts 9. Pius XII as actor and subject: on the representation of the Pope in cinema during the 1940s and 1950s Federico Ruozzi 10. The failed project of a Catholic Neorealism: on Giulio Andreotti, Felix Morlion and Roberto Rossellini Tomaso Subini Part 4:Censorship and control 11. Protectionism and Catholic film policy in twentieth-century Ireland Kevin Rockett 12. A case of entente cordiale between State and Church: Catholics and film control in Argentina (1954-1984) Maria Elena de las Carrera 13. The âIdeal Filmâ. On the transformation of the Italian Catholic film and media policy in the 1950s and the 1960s Mariagrazia Fanchi Part 5: Exhibition and Cinema-going experiences 14. Separating the sheep from the goats: gendering space in the Cinema Auditorium in Rucphen (1929) Thunnis van Oort 15. "I think Catholics didnât go to the cinema": Catholic film exhibition strategies and cinema-going experiences in Belgium, 1930s-1960s Daniel Biltereyst 16. Moralizing cinema while attracting audiences: Catholic film exhibition in post-war Rome Daniela Treveri Gennari