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Mass culture and Italian society from fascism to the Cold War
The 1930s to the 1950s in Italy witnessed large increases in film-going,
radio-listening, and the sale of music and weekly magazines. The industries that
made and sold commercial, cultural products were transformed by the new technologies
of reproduction and new approaches to marketing and
distribution. Yet historians tend to place the real genesis of
mass culture in the 1960s, or to generalize about the harnessing of mass culture to
the Fascist political project, without considering what kind of mass culture existed
at the time and whether this harnessing was successful. This book draws on extensive
new evidence, including oral histories and archival material, to explore possible
continuities between the uses of mass culture before and after World War
II.
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Fame amid the ruins : Italian film stardom in the age of neorealism
\"Italian cinema gave rise to a number of the best-known films of the postwar years, from Rome Open City to Bicycle Thieves. Although some neorealist film-makers would have preferred to abolish stars altogether, the public adored them and producers needed their help in relaunching the national film industry. This book explores the many conflicts that arose in Italy between 1945 and 1953 over stars and stardom, offering intimate studies of the careers of both well-known and less familiar figures, shedding new light on the close relationship forged between cinema and society during a time of political transition and shifting national identities\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Mussolini’s dream factory
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.
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The cult of the Duce : Mussolini and the Italians
\"The cult of the Duce is the first book to explore systematically the personality cult of the Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. It examines the factors which informed the cult and looks in detail at its many manifestations in the visual arts, architecture, political spectacle and the media. The conviction that Mussolini was an exceptional individual first became dogma among Fascists and then was communicated to the people at large. Intellectuals and artists helped fashion the idea of him as a new Caesar while the modern media of press, photography, cinema and radio aggrandised his every public act. The book considers the way in which Italians experienced the personality cult and analyses its controversial resonances in the postwar period. Academics and students with interests in Italian and European history and politics will find the volume indispensable to an understanding of Fascism, Italian society and culture, and modern political leadership.\"--Page [4] of cover.
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The New Italian Republic
The New Italian Republic charts the breakdown of the old party system and examines the changed political climate that has allowed Berlusconi to rise as Italy's new master and subsequently precipitated his rapid fall from power.
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