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 : 4.80/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : David Forgacs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107052173
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italy's Margins written by David Forgacs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five case studies show how different people and places were marginalized and socially excluded as the Italian nation-state was formed.

Author : Stephen Gundle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781461954538
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mussolini's Dream Factory written by Stephen Gundle and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first extended analysis of film stardom in Fascist Italy, focusing on the period from the start of sound cinema to the final end of Fascism in 1945. The author examines the development of an Italian star system, evaluates its place in film production and distribution, and explores its relationships with the political sphere and with broader commercial culture. The popular press, along with other evidence, is used to assess the extent of public engagement with film stars. Several major stars, including Isa Miranda, Vittorio De Sica, Amedeo Nazzari and Alida Valli, are closely analysed in terms of their screen performances and professional trajectories, including their fates in the aftermath of the Fascist regime. The book makes an original contribution to the understanding of Italian Fascism and the cinema of the period by tackling a field hitherto neglected, despite it being deemed important enough by the regime to warrant sustained attention and interference. A final chapter explores the place of the stars in popular memory and representations of the Fascist film world in postwar cinema. Stephen Gundle is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick. His books include "Between Hollywood and Moscow: the Italian Communists and the Challenge of Mass Culture, 1943-91" (2000), "Bellissima: Feminine Beauty and the Idea of Italy" (2007), "Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War" (2008, with David Forgacs), "Glamour: A History" (2008) and "Death and the Dolce Vita: The Dark Side of Rome in the 1950s" (2011). He is co-editor, with Christopher Duggan and Giuliana Pieri, of "The Cult of the Duce: Mussolini and the Italians" (2013).

Author : Giulia Albanese
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000554538
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the History of Italian Fascism written by Giulia Albanese and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last years, the discussion around what is fascism, if this concept can be applied to present forms of politics and if its seeds are still present today, became central in the political debate. This discussion led to a vast reconsideration of the meaning and the experience of fascism in Europe and is changing the ways in which scholars of different generations look at this political ideology and come back to it and it is also changing the ways in which we consider the experience of Italian fascism in the European and global context. The aim of the book is building a general history of Fascism and its historiography through the analysis of 13 different fundamental aspects, which were at the core of Fascist project or of Fascist practices during the regime. Each essay considers a specific and meaningful aspect of the history of Italian fascism, reflecting on it from the vantage point of a case study. The essays thus reinterrogates the history of Fascism to understand in which way Fascism was able to mould the historical context in which it was born, how and if it transformed political, cultural, social elements that were already present in Italy. The themes considered are violence, empire, war, politics, economy, religion, culture, but also antifascism and the impact of Fascism abroad, especially in the Twenties and at the beginnings of the Thirties. The book could be both used for a general public interested in the history of Europe in the interwar period and for an academic and scholarly public, since the essays aim to develop a provocative reflection on their own area of research.

Author : Stephen Gundle
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782382453
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mussolini's Dream Factory written by Stephen Gundle and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2013-12-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intersection between film stardom and politics is an understudied phenomenon of Fascist Italy, despite the fact that the Mussolini regime deemed stardom important enough to warrant sustained attention and interference. Focused on the period from the start of sound cinema to the final end of Fascism in 1945, this book examines the development of an Italian star system and evaluates its place in film production and distribution. The performances and careers of several major stars, including Isa Miranda, Vittorio De Sica, Amedeo Nazzari, and Alida Valli, are closely analyzed in terms of their relationships to the political sphere and broader commercial culture, with consideration of their fates in the aftermath of Fascism. A final chapter explores the place of the stars in popular memory and representations of the Fascist film world in postwar cinema.

Author : Stephen Gundle
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822325635
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Hollywood and Moscow written by Stephen Gundle and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000-12-04 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA study of the cultural policies of the Italian communist party following the collapse of fascismand the struggle with popular consumer culture that led to its demise in 1991./div

Author : Alessandra Tarquini
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299336204
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Italian Fascist Culture, 1922–1943 written by Alessandra Tarquini and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alessandra Tarquini’s A History of Italian Fascist Culture, 1922–1943 is widely recognized as an authoritative synthesis of the field. The book was published to much critical acclaim in 2011 and revised and expanded five years later. This long-awaited translation presents Tarquini’s compact, clear prose to readers previously unable to read it in the original Italian. Tarquini sketches the universe of Italian fascism in three broad directions: the regime’s cultural policies, the condition of various art forms and scholarly disciplines, and the ideology underpinning the totalitarian state. She details the choices the ruling class made between 1922 and 1943, revealing how cultural policies shaped the country and how intellectuals and artists contributed to those decisions. The result is a view of fascist ideology as a system of visions, ideals, and, above all, myths capable of orienting political action and promoting a precise worldview. Building on George L. Mosse’s foundational research, Tarquini provides the best single-volume work available to fully understand a complex and challenging subject. It reveals how the fascists used culture—art, cinema, music, theater, and literature—to build a conservative revolution that purported to protect the traditional social fabric while presenting itself as maximally oriented toward the future.

Author : Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520242165
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fascist Modernities written by Ruth Ben-Ghiat and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cultural history of Mussolini's dictatorship discusses the meanings of modernity in interwar Italy. The work argues that fascism appealed to many Italian intellectuals as a new model of modernity that would resolve the European crisis as well as long-standing problems of the national past.

Author : Linda Reeder
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350005207
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italy in the Modern World written by Linda Reeder and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a comprehensive history of Italy from around 1800 to the present, Italy in the Modern World traces the social and cultural transformations that defined the lives of Italians during the 19th and 20th century. The book focuses on how social relations (class, gender and race), science and the arts shaped the political processes of unification, state building, fascism and the postwar world. Split up into four parts covering the making of Italy, the liberal state, war and fascism, and the republic, the text draws on secondary literature and primary sources in order to synthesize current historiographical debates and provide primary documents for classroom use. There are individual chapters on key topics, such as unification, Italians in the world, Italy in the world, science and the arts, fascism, the World Wars, the Cold War, and Italy in the 21st century, as well as a wealth of useful features for students, including: * Comprehensive bibliographic essays covering each of the four parts * 23 images and 12 maps Italy in the Modern World also firmly places both the nation and its people in a wider global context through a distinctly transnational approach. It is essential reading for all students of modern Italian history.

Author : Christopher Duggan
Publisher : Berg 3pl
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italy in the Cold War written by Christopher Duggan and published by Berg 3pl. This book was released on 1995-11 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that many of Italy's current problems can be traced to the first decade of the cold war, 13 essays examine various aspects of that crucial period: the legacy of fascism, limited sovereignty, European integration, Pope Pius XII, cinema, prison notebooks, the family, industrial design, images of Russia, critics and intellectuals, and others. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR