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Culture and Conflict in Postwar Italy

Author : Robert Lumley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349208418
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Culture and Conflict in Postwar Italy written by Robert Lumley and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-07-19 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late and turbulent transition from a largely rural and peasant society to a modern urban state involved the crisis of rooted popular traditions and the emergence of mass cultural forms. As a result, Italy, once the centre of a cultural world, has increasingly found itself on the periphery of an American media empire and serious questions of cultural identity have been raised. The Italian case is further significant on account of the theoretical and political problems it has posed. As well as dealing with these and related topics, the book examines current tendencies, such as the rapid multiplication of sub-cultures and the crisis of 'mass' forms. Each chapter is written by a specialist in the field. Although the essays normally deal with specific problems, they also highlight both the historical context and more general considerations within their sphere of interest.

Broken Time, Fragmented Space

Author : Anna Maria Torriglia
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802036049
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Broken Time, Fragmented Space written by Anna Maria Torriglia and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how the artists and intellectuals of post-war Italy dealt with the 'shameful' heritage of their fascist upbringing and education by trying to craft a new cultural identity for themselves and the country.

Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama

Author : Louis Bayman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474402879
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama written by Louis Bayman and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian cinemas after the war were filled by audiences who had come to watch domestically-produced films of passion and pathos. These highly emotional and consciously theatrical melodramas posed moral questions with stylish flair, redefining popular ways of feeling about romance, family, gender, class, Catholicism, Italy, and feeling itself. The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama argues for the centrality of melodrama to Italian culture. It uncovers a wealth of films rarely discussed before including family melodramas, the crime stories of neorealismo popolare and opera films, and provides interpretive frameworks that position them in wider debates on aesthetics and society. The book also considers the well-established topics of realism and arthouse auteurism, and re-thinks film history by investigating the presence of melodrama in neorealism and post-war modernism. It places film within its broader cultural context to trace the connections of canonical melodramatists like Visconti and Matarazzo to traditions of opera, the musical theatre of the sceneggiata, visual arts, and magazines. In so doing it seeks to capture the artistry and emotional experiences found within a truly popular form.

Post-War Italian Cinema

Author : Daniela Treveri Gennari
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135894973
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Post-War Italian Cinema written by Daniela Treveri Gennari and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the involvement of the United States and the Vatican in the Italian film industry between 1945 and 1960.€Gennari analyzes the€tensions between economic (film industry), political (government) and ideological pressures.

Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War

Author : David A. Forgacs
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253219485
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)

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Book Synopsis Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War by : David A. Forgacs

Download or read book Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War written by David A. Forgacs and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1930s to the 50s in Italy commercial cultural products were transformed by new reproductive technologies and ways of marketing and distribution, and the appetite for radio, films, music and magazines boomed. This book uses new evidence to explore possible continuities between the uses of mass culture before and after World War II.

Italy Since 1945

Author : Patrick McCarthy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198731701
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Italy Since 1945 written by Patrick McCarthy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Short Oxford History of Italy series, in seven volumes, will offer a complete History of Italy from the early middle ages to the present and, in each period, will present the most recent historical perspectives on Italian history. This means setting Italian history in the broader contextof European history as a whole. It also means questioning accepted interpretations of Italian history in each of these periods and, in particular, the idea that Italy's history has been significantly different from that of the rest of Europe. Each volume will emphasise how developments in Italy ineach period are best understood as variants on broader European patterns of political, economic social and cultural change. Italy since 1945 sets in context the tremendous changes that Italy has undergone in the last 55 years. In place of the land of pizza, sunshine, and soccer, McCarthy describes a developing nation: an economy that has found its own road to success via the piccole imprese with an increasingly strongstockmarket and more sophisticated banking; a dynamic, traditional, family centred society; and a political system struggling to modernize after forty years of Christian Democrat rule and Communist opposition. McCarthy also looks at the role of the Church, including Pius XII's wartime activities andthe 'foreign pope', John-Paul II before finally turning to sport in Italy - the only country to have 3 daily newspapers devoted to the subject. Athoritative, accessible, and absorbing, the book examines modern Italy through the eyes of 10 leading commentators and explores the Italian experience in the wider context of both the nation's past and its wider contemporary European position.

Catholicism in Modern Italy

Author : John Pollard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134556748
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Catholicism in Modern Italy written by John Pollard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Pollard's book surveys the relationship between Catholicism and the process of change in Italy from Unification to the present day. Central to the book is the complex set of relationships between traditional religion and the forces of change. In a broad sweep, Catholicism in Modern Italy looks at the cultural, social, political and economic aspects of the Catholic church and its relationship to the different experiences across Italy over this dramatic period of change and 'modernisation'.

Umberto Eco and the Open Text

Author : Peter Bondanella
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521020879
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Umberto Eco and the Open Text written by Peter Bondanella and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive study in English of Umberto Eco's theories and fictions.

The History of Italy

Author : Charles L. Killinger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313011230
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The History of Italy written by Charles L. Killinger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-07-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Italy? In 1814 Austrian Chancellor M. de Metternich dismissed it as a mere geographical expression, because political control of the peninsula had long been divided among self-governing cities, possessions of foreign dynasties, and the Vatican. Prior to that, Italy had formed the home base of the Roman Empire. It was not until 1861 that a united Italy emerged. This concise, and clearly written account explores Italian history and culture from the Etruscans to the present day. Starting with an introduction providing data on Italy's geography, people, and current government, the book examines the political and cultural history of the country in eleven chapters. Readers will discover the Romans, Lombards, popes, Guelphs, Ghibbellines, the Medici, the Risorgimento, sculptors, composers, Fascists, Christian Democrats, and many other people and events of Italy's rich history. Included are a biographical section with portraits of noteworthy Italians, an extensive bibliographical essay, a glossary of terms, and an index, making this book the most complete and up-to-date general history of the nation available.

The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture

Author : Zygmunt G. Barânski (ed)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521559829
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (598 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture written by Zygmunt G. Barânski (ed) and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-16 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays provides a comprehensive account of the culture of modern Italy. Contributions focus on a wide range of political, historical and cultural questions. The volume provides information and analysis on such topics as regionalism, the growth of a national language, social and political cultures, the role of intellectuals, the Church, the left, feminism, the separatist movements, organised crime, literature, art, design, fashion, the mass media, and music. While offering a thorough history of Italian cultural movements, political trends and literary texts over the last century and a half, the volume also examines the cultural and political situation in Italy today and suggests possible future directions in which the country might move. Each essay contains suggestions for further reading on the topics covered. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture is an invaluable source of materials for courses on all aspects of modern Italy.

Popular Italian Cinema

Author : Flavia Brizio-Skov
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085772097X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Popular Italian Cinema written by Flavia Brizio-Skov and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its monsters, vampires and cowboys, Italian popular culture in the postwar period has generally been dismissed as a form of evasion or escapism. Here, four international scholars re-examine and reinterpret the era to show that popular Italian cinema was not only in tune with contemporary political and social trends, it also presaged the turmoil and rebellion of the 1960s and 1970s. Their analysis of peplum (or 'sword and sandal') films, horror films, spaghetti westerns and comedy Italian-style shows how genre cinema reflected the changes wrought by modernization, urbanization, consumerist culture and the sexual revolution. With striking insights into the links between popular culture and politics, this book will be indispensable for specialists in film and media studies, Italian and cultural studies, as well as social history.

Italy and the Military

Author : Mattia Roveri
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030571610
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Italy and the Military written by Mattia Roveri and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds new light on the role of the military in Italian society and culture during war and peacetime by bringing together a whole host of contributors across the interdisciplinary spectrum of Italian Studies. Divided into five thematic units, this volume examines the continuous and multifaceted impact of the military on modern and contemporary Italy. The Italian context offers a particularly fertile ground for studying the cultural impact of the military because the institution was used not only for defensive/offensive purposes, but also to unify the country and to spread ideas of socio-cultural and technological development across its diverse population.

Opera in Postwar Venice

Author : Harriet Boyd-Bennett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316761762
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book Opera in Postwar Venice written by Harriet Boyd-Bennett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning from the unlikely vantage point of Venice in the aftermath of fascism and World War II, this book explores operatic production in the city's nascent postwar culture as a lens onto the relationship between opera and politics in the twentieth century. Both opera and Venice in the middle of the century are often talked about in strikingly similar terms: as museums locked in the past and blind to the future. These clichés are here overturned: perceptions of crisis were in fact remarkably productive for opera, and despite being physically locked in the past, Venice was undergoing a flourishing of avant-garde activity. Focusing on a local musical culture, Harriet Boyd-Bennett recasts some of the major composers, works, stylistic categories and narratives of twentieth-century music. The study provides fresh understandings of works by composers as diverse as Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Verdi, Britten and Nono.

The Media in Italy

Author : Matthew Hibberd
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335235166
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book The Media in Italy written by Matthew Hibberd and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2007-12-16 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Italian media - the press, cinema, radio and television - is one of the largest and most controversial media industries in mainland Europe. In this introductory text Matthew Hibberd explores the key historical processes and events in the growth and development of Italy's main media and considers it in the context of the economic, political, socio-cultural and technological movements that have affected Italy. Featuring a timeline of key Italian events, the book begins with the Unification - or Risorgimento - of Italy in 1861, and charts the rise of Italy from a fragmented and rural-based society through to a leading industrialised and urbanised world power. It details Fascism's reliance on the exploitation of the mass media, analyses Italy's remarkable post-war recovery, the development of democratic institutions and the contribution that a pluralistic media has made to this. Finally, it examines Silvio Berlusconi's rise to high political office and questions whether the involvement of Italy's leading media mogul in politics has harmed Italy's international reputation. The Media in Italy addresses key themes that show how the Italian state and Italian media operate, such as: How governing parties and individuals have been able to assert influence over media intuitions Why there is a close relationship between political elites and media professionals The lack of consensus over key media reforms The importance of the Catholic Church in the development of the Italian media How a unique Italian media system has been shaped by issues of citizenship, democracy and nation-state The Media in Italy is key reading for students on media, journalism, politics, and modern language courses.

Religion and Mass Electoral Behaviour in Europe

Author : David Broughton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134634803
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Mass Electoral Behaviour in Europe written by David Broughton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2000-12-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative, cutting-edge study, this book focuses on the question of whether - and how - religion continues to influence and shape electoral behaviour across Europe.

Contemporary Italy

Author : Martin J. Bull
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313387656
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Italy written by Martin J. Bull and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-02-28 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique bibliographic and historiographic guide to the study of contemporary Italy, this book points to over 650 texts that have shaped the academic and scholarly study of postwar Italy. It is the first guide to include a genuine mix of English-language and Italian-language materials and to approach these materials in a historiographic as well as a bibliographic manner. It is an ideal guide for English, North American, and Italian scholars who have just begun their study of Italy or want to know more about research in areas outside their area of expertise. Following the introduction, which outlines the context within which the evolution of Italian studies should be viewed, the book is divided into two parts. Part I includes five historiographic chapters providing a detailed survey and analysis of works published in history, politics, government, the economy, and society. Part II is an annotated bibliographic guide to all of the texts pointed to in Part I.

Italian Cinema from the Silent Screen to the Digital Image

Author : Joseph Luzzi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 144114756X
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Italian Cinema from the Silent Screen to the Digital Image written by Joseph Luzzi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive guide, some of the world's leading scholars consider the issues, films, and filmmakers that have given Italian cinema its enduring appeal. Readers will explore the work of such directors as Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Roberto Rossellini as well as a host of subjects including the Italian silent screen, the political influence of Fascism on the movies, lesser known genres such as the giallo (horror film) and Spaghetti Western, and the role of women in the Italian film industry. Italian Cinema from the Silent Screen to the Digital Image explores recent developments in cinema studies such as digital performance, the role of media and the Internet, neuroscience in film criticism, and the increased role that immigrants are playing in the nation's cinema.