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Rarely has a contemporary political leader received more cinema attention than Silvio Berlusconi. Since Federico Fellini's Ginger e Fred in 1986, more than thirty-three narrative or documentary films focusing on Berlusconi - or evoking him in a substantial way - have been made, targeting national and international audiences. Currently one more film by director Roberta Torre is in pre-production and presumable more will be made in the near future. Even for a political leader of his longevity, the proliferation of films on Berlusconi is unprecedented and this phenomenon invites attention. This essay, which is an extract of a monograph on Berlusconi in cinema, offers first insight into the representation of Silvio Berlusconi's cultural and political significations in film and provides and ample cinematic corpus for further analysis.

Nicoletta Marini-Maio is a professor of Italian and Film Studies at Dickinson College.

Marini-Maio, Nicoletta. Before and After Silvio: A Corpus for Us All. In Italian Political Cinema: Public Life, Imaginary, and Identity in Contemporary Italian Film, edited by Giancarlo Lombardi and Christian Uva, 45-55. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang, 2016.

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