The Ohio Conference on Political Cinema

The 1979 Ohio University Film Conference on Political Cinema held April 25-29 in Athens, Ohio, raised important theoretical and methodological issues for radical film theory. The following schematic summary of the conference sessions, while not exhausting the range and complexity of these issues, may serve to identify a number of current perspectives on political cinema. The opening panel on European Political Filmmaking examined politically significant films. Speaking on Italian cinema during fascism, John Rowe argued that, despite Mussolini's Censor Board, the production of anti-fascist films, whose latent form and content were subversive to fascist ideology and supportive of socialist themes, continued

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