Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (IF) - Dangerous Masculinities: Young Men in Italian Cinema of the 1940s-1960s

The present project aims to examine Italian cinema during the twenty-year period from 1943 to 1963 in relation to the construction of the image of the young Italian man. The main goals are to understand how Italian cinema from the post-war period to the ‘economic boom’ gave substance to male national identities and to situate those identities within an emerging youth culture produced by the new consumer society in Italy.