Culture and conflict in postwar Italy : essays on mass and popular culture
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Culture and conflict in postwar Italy : essays on mass and popular culture
（University of Reading European and international studies）
Macmillan in association with the Graduate School of European and International Studies, University of Reading, 1990
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ISBN 9780333458044
Description
A compilation of essays presenting an overview of the major developments in popular and mass culture in Italy since World War II. It examines a variety of topics such as the conflicts and tensions between and within Catholic and communist sub-cultures.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 History, culture, language - the Italian experience: family, culture and politics in contemporary Italy, Paul Ginsborg
- Italy - tradition, backwardness and modernity, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
- how popular is Italian?, Giulio Lepschy. Part 2 Religion, politics, social movements - culture and people: uniformity undone - aspects of Catholic culture in postwar Italy, Percy Allum
- the Italian Communist party and culture, David Forgacs
- challenging tradition - social movements, cultural changes and the ecological question, Robert Lumley. Part 3 Mass culture and intellectuals: Pier Paolo Pasolini - culture, Gramsci, Zygmunt Baranski
- Umberto Eco - theory and practice in the analysis of the media, David Robey
- rolling away from the centre towards X - some notes on Italian philosophy, "weak thought" and postmodernism, Ian Chambers. Part 4 Two case-studies - design and cinema in postwar Italy: from neorealism to Lucci Rosse - cinema, politics, society 1945-85, Stephen Gundle
- "a home for everybody?", design, ideology and the culture of the home in Italy, 1945-72, Penny Sparkes. Part 5 Looking at television - from public service to competition: a guide to the neo-television of the 1980's, Umberto Eco
- hard times for public service broadcasting - the RAI in the age of commercial competition, Giuseppe Richeri
- the Berlusconi phenomenon, Philip Schlesinger
- the evolution of television language in Italy since deregulation, Mauro Wolf
- TGI - the eight o'clock news on RAI Uno, Christopher Wagstaff
- imported Utopias, Lidia Curti.
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: pbk ISBN 9780333458051
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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.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 History, culture, language - the Italian experience: family, culture and politics in contemporary Italy, Paul Ginsborg
- Italy - tradition, backwardness and modernity, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
- how popular is Italian?, Giulio Lepschy. Part 2 Religion, politics, social movements - culture and people: uniformity undone - aspects of Catholic culture in postwar Italy, Percy Allum
- the Italian Communist party and culture, David Forgacs
- challenging tradition - social movements, cultural changes and the ecological question, Robert Lumley. Part 3 Mass culture and intellectuals: Pier Paolo Pasolini - culture, Gramsci, Zygmunt Baranski
- Umberto Eco - theory and practice in the analysis of the media, David Robey
- rolling away from the centre towards X - some notes on Italian philosophy, "weak thought" and postmodernism, Ian Chambers. Part 4 Two case-studies - design and cinema in postwar Italy: from neorealism to Lucci Rosse - cinema, politics, society 1945-85, Stephen Gundle
- "a home for everybody?", design, ideology and the culture of the home in Italy, 1945-72, Penny Sparkes. Part 5 Looking at television - from public service to competition: a guide to the neo-television of the 1980's, Umberto Eco
- hard times for public service broadcasting - the RAI in the age of commercial competition, Giuseppe Richeri
- the Berlusconi phenomenon, Philip Schlesinger
- the evolution of television language in Italy since deregulation, Mauro Wolf
- TGI - the eight o'clock news on RAI Uno, Christopher Wagstaff
- imported Utopias, Lidia Curti.
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