Telefoni Bianchi

Telefoni Bianchi ( "White Telephones" ) films were produced in Italy in the 1930s as an imitation of American films of the period. For example, costly art deco movie sets were used, often white phones, as a typical status symbol of the bourgeois wealth, contained, and children appeared with Shirley Temple curls hairstyles. These films tended to be socially conservative, and promoted the values ​​of family, respect for authority, classical, rigid hierarchies and the country life.

The neorealist Italian filmmakers saw their critical films in response to the Telefono Bianco films with their idealized values.

  • Film genre
  • Film in Italy
Italian neorealism
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