Dolce Vita Confidential by Shawn Levy

Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi, and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome

A richly reported cultural history of 1950s Rome that shows how the city’s booming film industry, fashion houses, star system and tabloid photographers converged to create modern celebrity and midcentury glamour; drawing on archival research and lively anecdotes, it reconstructs the making of landmark films, the emergence of the paparazzi and the personalities, scandals and economic forces that transformed postwar Italy into an international cultural capital.

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