The Last Forty Years Of Italian Popular Culture

Author : Enrico Minardi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527547132
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Forty Years of Italian Popular Culture written by Enrico Minardi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Italian pop culture? This volume provides an answer to this question, offering an insight into some of the most recent and interesting developments in the field of pop culture. The reader will find essays on a variety of topics including literature, theater, music, social media, comics, politics, and even Christmas. Each contribution here places stress on the popular. The main reference points guiding the chapters are, in fact, the pioneering works by Antonio Gramsci and Umberto Eco. The result is, therefore, a portrait of a country where mass participation in cultural events always accompanies some form of reflection on the national identity and other related issues. Historians and sociologists, as well as musicologists and philosophers (in addition to pop culture aficionados), will find the text an engaging and indispensable read.

Author : Fabio Corsini
Publisher : Viella Libreria Editrice
ISBN 13 : 8833130703
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italian Pop Culture written by Fabio Corsini and published by Viella Libreria Editrice. This book was released on 2018-09-06T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does the expression pop culture mean today? And how does it contribute to understanding a Country and a cultural group? This collection of essays, diverse in content, approach and perspective, tries to answer these questions. It aims at describing and figuring out the texture of Italian pop culture – as a meaningful juxtaposition between high and low, mass and elite, artistic and consumerist – in relation to the Italian mediascape and cultural context. Through the mosaic of narratives produced by television, music, comics and novels, to name a few, and the mixture of genres and types of cultural products analyzed in every essay, the reader is allowed to further the knowledge of Italian pop culture and to get a glimpse of Italians and ‘Italian-ness’.

Author : Giovanna P. Del Negro
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773527393
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Passeggiata and Popular Culture in an Italian Town written by Giovanna P. Del Negro and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth study detailing how members of a small Italian community use both traditional practices and expressive forms taken from popular culture to grapple with the social changes brought about by modernity.

Author : Robert Lumley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349208418
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( 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.

Author : L. Benadusi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137448512
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George L. Mosse's Italy written by L. Benadusi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve years have gone by since the passing of George L. Mosse, yet his work still provides essential tools for historical analysis and influences contemporary research. This volume provides a re-examination of his historiographical production and an analysis of his influence in the context of Italian history.

Author : Nicole Haring
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839462428
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and Age/Aging in Popular Culture written by Nicole Haring and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As social spaces are culturally diverse and digitally networked, the reality of our lives is shaped by processes of globalization and digitization. This leads to the question of whether popular cultures enable or impede (inter-)cultural exchange and global communication. To explore this, the contributors to this volume analyze representations of the intersections of gender and age/ing in cultural and media consumption, such as literature, film, music, and social media. The interconnectedness between gender and aging has been evident since the 1990s and enabled the recognition of age as a cultural category - now is the time to take this intersectional analysis further.

Author : Maximiliano Fuentes Codera
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800733402
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Continental Transfers written by Maximiliano Fuentes Codera and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2022-05-13 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite being separated by thousands of miles and shaped by distinctive national histories, the countries of Spain, Italy, and Argentina were intertwined in a variety of ways during the first half of the twentieth century. This collection brings scholars from each nation into conversation with one another to trace these complex historical connections over the period of the two World Wars. Deploying “Latinity” as a novel analytical framework, it gives a broad and dynamic perspective on cases of reciprocal exchange that include the influence of Italian Socialism on Hispanophone leftists; the roots of Argentine liberalism in Machiavelli and Spanish Nationalist thinkers; and the web of connections among Italian Fascism, Argentine Nacionalismo, and Spanish Francoism.

Author : Cinzia Russi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 168393279X
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sicilian Elements in Andrea Camilleri's Narrative Language written by Cinzia Russi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sicilian Elements in Andrea Camilleri’s Narrative Language examines Camilleri’s unique linguistic repertoire and techniques over his career as a novelist. It focuses on the intensification of Sicilian linguistic features in Camilleri’s narrative works, in particular features pertaining to the domains of sounds and grammar, since these have been marginalized in linguistic-centered research on the evolution of Camilleri’s narrative language and remain overall understudied. Through a systematic comparative analysis of the distribution patterns of selected Sicilian features in a selection of Camilleri’s historical novels and novels of the Montalbano series, the author identifies the individual features that have become most widespread and the lexical items that are targeted with highest frequency and consistency. The results of the analysis show that in the earlier novels, Sicilian features are rather sparse and can be attributed to linguistic situational functionality; that is, they function as indices of salient, distinctive aspects of topics, settings, events/situations, and characters. Conversely, in the latest novels, Sicilian elements pervade the entire novels and the texts are written almost entirely in Camilleri’s own Sicilian, vigatese, so that Sicilian is stripped of any linguistic situational functionality.

Author : Stefania Lucamante
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487506880
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Righteous Anger in Contemporary Italian Literary and Cinematic written by Stefania Lucamante and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the many ways in which anger and indignation shape authorial intentions and determine the products of contemporary Italian artists.

Author : N. Cleaver
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137448490
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grover Cleveland's New Foreign Policy written by N. Cleaver and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whereas the Spanish-American War has long been studied as a turning point in American history, Grover Cleveland's foreign policy. Nick Cleaver's study illuminates the dynamism and ideals of Cleveland's diplomatic moment, revealing their continuities with the engagement and expansionism of the McKinley presidency.