Culture, Censorship and the State in Twentieth-Century Italy

ISBN-13: 9781900755955 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 216 str.

Guido Bonsaver; Robert S. C. Gordon

Opis

Recent work on the cultural history of modern Italy has radically challenged received opinion about the relationship of state and culture during the twentieth century. In this rich interdisciplinary book the complex interactions and negotiations of control arising from this state-culture connection are elucidated by way of case studies of major authors, filmmakers and artists and their encounters with censorship, patronage and other forms of direct state intervention; analytical surveys of different periods, media and culture industries; and through an examination of such key issues as Fascist censorship, the Resistance and its imprint in the collective memory, the introduction of television in the 1950s, and 1970's terrorism.

Spis treści

Part I: Mapping the Field 1. State, Culture, Censorship: An Introduction 2. How Exceptional were Culture-State Relations in Twentieth-Century Italy? Part II: The Fascist State and Culture 3. The Fascist Anthropological Revolution 4. Mussolini and the Italian Intellectuals 5. L’Italia vera. Culture and the State in an Anti-Fascist Exile Journal Part III: Fascist Censorship 6. Fascist Censorship and Non-Fascist Literary Circles 7. Women and Censorship in Fascist Italy: From Mura to Paola Masino 8. Theatrical Censorship in Italy during the Fascist Period 9. A Micro-History of State Censorship in Italy, 1931–39: The Case of Henry Furst Part IV: From Fascism to Democracy: Transitions and Memories 10. Hollywood, Italy and the First World War: Italian Reactions to Film Versions of Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms 11. Anti-Fascism and Literary Criticism in Postwar Italy: Revisiting the mito americano 12. The Italian State and the Resistance Legacy in the 1950s and 1960s Part V: Archive and Memory: A Case Study 13. Ignazio Silone and the Politics of 'Archive Malice' 14. The Double Bind of Ignazio Silone: Between Archive and Hagiography Part VI: Postwar Italy: Television, Theatre, Cinema, Media 15. Television and Censorship: Preliminary Research Notes 16. Dario Fo, Franca Rame and the Censors 17. Film and the Anni di piombo: Representations of Politically-Motivated Violence in Recent Italian Cinema 18. Censorship in the Time of Berlusconi

O autorze

Guido Bonsaver