Producing the ideal fascist landscape: Nature, materiality and the cinematic representation of land reclamation in the Pontine Marshes

Social and Cultural Geography

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 613-634

  Caprotti, Federico ^a   Kaïka, Maria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cinematography; Fascism; Italy; LUCE; Modernity; Nature; Newsreels

Indexed keywords

LAND RECLAMATION; LANDSCAPE; NATIONALISM; SWAMP;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LATINA; LAZIO; PONTINE ISLANDS; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 50349091609     PISSN: 14649365     EISSN: 14701197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14649360802292447     Document Type: Article

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