white telephone

Short definition from Wiktionary

Noun

1. 1
   Italian light-comedy and melodramatic films from the Fascist period.
2. 2
   Films of other nations that share a nonseriousness of tone and disconnection from reality with the Italian films.

Adjective

1. 1
   Characteristic of the Italian genre of film, white telephone; a sense of consequence-free lives of privilege.
2. 2
   Characteristic of the Italian genre of film called white telephone; suggesting consequence-free lives of privilege.