Celare e ricreare. La manipolazione dei film stranieri tramite il doppiaggio nell'Italia fascista

The aim of this paper is to analyse film censorship in Italy during fascism, focusing mainly on foreign products and their manipulation through dubbing. The first chapter presents an overview of the regulations regarding film censorship issued during the dictatorship, as well as the transformation of the regime's approach towards cinema during those twenty years. The second chapter focuses on the introduction of foreign films in Italy and their subsequent translation. Starting from the figure of the imbonitore, the text mentions all the methods of translation used during those years, giving particular importance to the procedures employed since the arrival of sound cinema, to finally describe dubbing. The third chapter offers examples of cuts and manipulations performed on foreign films during the fascist regime, exposing the practical consequences of the theoretical aspects explained in the previous chapters. As the reasons that could lead to the alteration of a work could be different, the cases have been divided according to the causes that provoked their censorship. Finally, the last chapter presents the situation of film revision in Italy in the period starting from 1943 until the immediate post-war months. Subsequently, the text presents an overview of the most relevant laws about film regulation issued between the instauration of the Italian Republic and the present day. This is useful to observe, on the one hand, the differences between the current situation and the historical period examined previously in the paper and, on the other hand, the influence that fascism had on the development of the film industry in Italy.