Italy and the Military: Cultural Perspectives from Unification to Contemporary Italy

ISBN-13: 9783030571603 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 389 str.

Mattia Roveri

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Mattia Roveri is Visiting Fellow in the Department of Italian Studies at New York University, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of History in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Hostos Community College, City University of New York.