The Last Forty Years of Italian Popular Culture
The Last Forty Years of Italian Popular Culture

Author: Enrico Minardi

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2020-02-18

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1527547132

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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.

The Passeggiata and Popular Culture in an Italian Town
The Passeggiata and Popular Culture in an Italian Town

Author: Giovanna P. Del Negro

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9780773527393

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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.

Culture and Conflict in Postwar Italy
Culture and Conflict in Postwar Italy

Author: Robert Lumley

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1990-07-19

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 1349208418

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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.

George L. Mosse's Italy
George L. Mosse's Italy

Author: L. Benadusi

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-09-10

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1137448512

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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.

Gender and Age/Aging in Popular Culture
Gender and Age/Aging in Popular Culture

Author: Nicole Haring

Publisher: transcript Verlag

Published: 2023-06-30

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 3839462428

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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.

Continental Transfers
Continental Transfers

Author: Maximiliano Fuentes Codera

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2022-05-13

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1800733402

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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.

Sicilian Elements in Andrea Camilleri's Narrative Language
Sicilian Elements in Andrea Camilleri's Narrative Language

Author: Cinzia Russi

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-10-14

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 168393279X

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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.

The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories
The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories

Author: Jhumpa Lahiri

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2019-03-07

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 0141985623

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'Rich. . . eclectic. . . a feast' Telegraph This landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story tradition, from the birth of the modern nation to the end of the twentieth century. Poets, journalists, visual artists, musicians, editors, critics, teachers, scientists, politicians, translators: the writers that inhabit these pages represent a dynamic cross section of Italian society, their powerful voices resonating through regional landscapes, private passions and dramatic political events. This wide-ranging selection curated by Jhumpa Lahiri includes well known authors such as Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante and Luigi Pirandello alongside many captivating new discoveries. More than a third of the stories featured in this volume have been translated into English for the first time, several of them by Lahiri herself.

Grover Cleveland's New Foreign Policy
Grover Cleveland's New Foreign Policy

Author: N. Cleaver

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-10-23

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1137448490

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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.