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Between Documentary and Neorealism: Marshall Plan Films in Italy (1948-1955)

Abstract

Using the Marshall Plan Film productions in Italy as a case study, this article re-examines the role of state-sponsored visual information campaigns in renegotiating international documentary film forms, aesthetics, and production networks at the beginning of the Cold War.