Italy and the military : cultural perspectives from unification to contemporary Italy
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Italy and the military : cultural perspectives from unification to contemporary Italy
(Italian and Italian American studies)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2020
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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.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
1. The Military and Us: Towards a New Approach to the Study of the Military in Culture
Mattia Roveri
I. JOURNALISM
2. 'What an Aesthetic War': The Italian Media Strategy and the Military during the First World War
Marco Mondini
3. Sports and the Military in Italian Newspapers from the First World War
Francesca Gatta
4. The Army and Military Policies of Post-Unification Italy in the Milanese Radical Press Morena Corradi
II. LITERATURE
5. Verga's 'L'amante di Gramigna': Outlaws and Disorder in Militarized Post-Unification Italy
Susan Amatangelo
6. Military Service in Textbooks for Italian Soldiers, 1861-1914
Marco Rovinello
7. The Montale Siblings and the Great War
Giuseppe Gazzola
III. MEMORY
8. Two Italian Colonial Massacres
David Forgacs
9. 'Contadini in divisa': Conscription's Making and Unmaking of Italians from Rural Piedmont
Fiona M. Stewart
10. Italy's Fields of Glory: WWI Battlefield Travel and the Uses of Public Memory, 1919-1953
David Aliano
IV. IDEOLOGY
11. Visualizing Italy through a Militant Lens: F.T. Marinetti and Italy's Military Experience
Ernest Ialongo
12. The Artist-Officer: War, Beauty and the Nation in Ardengo Soffici's Kobilek
Simona Storchi
13. Squadrismo and the Militarization of Politics
Alessandro Saluppo
V. VISUALS
14. Imaging the Military in Modern and Contemporary Italian Art
Adrian R. Duran
15. Soldiers for the Mob: The Military as Metaphor for Italian Organized Crime
Rebecca Bauman
16. The Black American Soldier: Italian Cinematic Reflections
Shelleen Greene and Mattia Roveri, New York University
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