«PUTTING ITALY BACK ON THE MAP» DIASPORIC CINEMA AUDIENCES IN POSTWAR SYDNEY

In April 1961, the Sydney screening of Federico Fellini’s latest film La dolce vita (1960) broke all box office records, and associated scandals attracted attention cinemagoers migrant local press. Over two hundred thousand Italians had migrated to Australia by this time, creating a demand for Italian film. This article examines central role that plays within social cultural lives diasporic audiences their perceptions change show importance cinema, not only in cultivating maintaining national identity, but establishing sense italianità 1960s Sydney.