Looking for Shirley Temple? Cinema, celebrity culture and childhood in fascist Italy
Journal title STORIA E PROBLEMI CONTEMPORANEI
Author/s Barbara Montesi
Publishing Year 2023 Issue 2021/88 Language Italian
Pages 21 P. 93-113 File size 218 KB
DOI 10.3280/SPC2021-088006
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Even in fascist Italy, the smiling Shirley Temple becomes a celebrity. Exalted for her peculiarities, the child becomes a target when compared with what should be an Italian star. Responding to militarized childhood and ready for the sacrifice of the regime, seriousness is the characteristic that must distinguish the Italian baby actors, whose image becomes public with thoughtful shots and in roles of heroes or victims. Some boys achieve notoriety in parts that respond to the fascist myth of Balilla, but it is a little girl, Maria Letizia Pascoli, to represent the most accomplished model of a baby star, also embodying an independent, active and smiling childhood and an unprecedented female protagonism.
Keywords: fascism, childhood, celebrity culture, visual culture, Shirley Temple, Mariù Pascoli
Barbara Montesi, Alla ricerca di Shirley Temple? Cinema, celebrity culture e infanzia nell’Italia fascista in "STORIA E PROBLEMI CONTEMPORANEI" 88/2021, pp 93-113, DOI: 10.3280/SPC2021-088006