Centro Sperimentale is Mussolini's state-subsidized film school where film directors learned to make films in the well-equipped studios that Mussolini fostered (a complex called the Cinecittà). Mussolini's cinema was a cinema of distraction. Its primary goal was to entertain. Mussolini's cinema was for the most part studio-bound, representing the world through elaborately constructed sets. The plots were also elaborate constructs, following formulas and conventions similar to those of the classical Hollywood film.