Antonio Gramsci

Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

David Forgacs

William Boelhower

Selections from Cultural Writings

Eric Hobsbawm

İbrahim Yıldız

Seçme yazılar 1916-1935

Gramsci kitabı

Robert Lumley

This is an up-to-date, illustrated introduction to the study of modern Italian culture containing nineteen chapters by specialists in the field of language, politics, religious, ethnic, and gender identities, the mass media, cultural policy, and stars. Adopting a unique and accessible interdisciplinary focus, Italian Cultural Studies: An Introduction presents a variety of new perspectives on modern Italian culture. Each of the four parts explore diverse aspects of culture in Italy. 'Geographies' questions received notions of the Italian nation, the family, the 'South' and corruption; it also looks at anthropological approaches to culture and at Italy's linguistic pluralism. 'Identities' examines gender,religion, politics, and ethnicity as a means with which people define themselves and others. 'Media' explores the press, literature, television, and cinema. 'Culture and Society' brings together historical analyses of cultural policy, stars and style, and popular music. Each part is followed bysample analyses of visual materials and includes guidance on further reading. A chronology of political and cultural events since 1900 is also provided. Drawing on the expertise of leading authorities Italian Cultural Studies will be essential reading for students and anyone else interested in modern Italy and its culture.

An Introduction

Italian Cultural Studies

"Antonio Gramsci (Italian; 22 January 1891? - 27 April 1937) was an Italian writer, politician, political theorist, philosopher, sociologist, and linguist. He was a founding member and onetime leader of the Communist Party of Italy and was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime. Gramsci was one of the most important Marxist thinkers in the 20th century. His writings are heavily concerned with the analysis of culture and political leadership and he is notable as a highly original thinker within modern European thought. He is renowned for his theory of cultural hegemony, which describes how states use cultural institutions to maintain power in a capitalist society."--Wikipedia.

Capitalism, Populism and Culture

Rethinking Italian Fascism

Otto Preminger said the history of the cinema was divided into two eras: one before and one after Rome Open City (Roma Città Aperta, 1945). The film is based on events that took place in Rome in 1944, during the Nazi occupation. This book re-examines the film and its place in Rossellini's career. David Forgacs reconstructs its production history, its relationship to the events that inspired it and the time in which it was made. He argues that the traditional critical labelling of Rome Open City as the original work of neo-realism fails to capture the film's hybrid and contradictory character. Part documentary record, part patriotic myth, Rome Open City is at once an extraordinarily powerful commemoration of wartime experience and a rhetorical reworking of that experience, using stereotypes and moral polarisations.

Rome Open City (Roma Città Aperta)

I 'margini d'Italia' sono tutto ciò che si è scelto di relegare alla periferia fisica o simbolica della nazione: le popolazioni africane delle colonie, le zone meno sviluppate del meridione, i manicomi prima della loro chiusura, le baraccopoli delle grandi città e i campi nomadi di oggi. È indubbio che l'esclusione di alcuni soggetti e alcuni luoghi contribuisce a determinare l'identità culturale di una nazione. Nel nostro paese l'esclusione sociale non è sempre passata attraverso un progetto politico preciso, ma è sempre stata contrassegnata da un discorso pubblico che ha rappresentato luoghi e persone come marginali. Nel libro, le voci e le fotografie di coloro che hanno contribuito alla segregazione politica e sociale, o l'hanno combattuta, ci raccontano molto sul processo di formazione dell'Italia moderna. Il risultato è un ribaltamento di prospettiva nella considerazione della nostra identità, destinato a lasciare il segno nella storiografia italiana.

L'esclusione sociale dall'Unità a oggi

Margini d'Italia

Stephen Gundle

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.

Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War

Five case studies show how different people and places were marginalized and socially excluded as the Italian nation-state was formed.

David Forgacs

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