With fewer resources and a liberal agenda to provide the public with films that would empathetically put contemporary issues in theaters, the nation's cinematic tendencies were also ready to be renewed. Prior to this, the Italian industry had been synonymous with elaborate studio settings, most notably thanks to Cinécitta studios, which had been left heavily damaged.
Previously, throughout WWII, the likes of Guiseppe De Santis and Mario Alicata considered the possibility of a movement 'following the slow and tired step of the worker who returns home'. After the war, this sentiment aligned with the public's interests, as a coalition government was formed and the country aimed to restart with a liberal ideology. This caused Italian production companies to drastically scale down. companies in order to secure an American dominance of the market. Once Mussolini's fascist regime had fallen, the Italian film industry cooperated with U.S.
