Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War.
Title:
Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War.
Author:
Forgacs, David.
ISBN:
9780253000408
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (377 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Culture, Place, and Nation -- Part 1. Cultural Consumption and Everyday Life -- 1 Patterns of Consumption -- 2 Practices of the Self: Intimacy, Sexuality, Sport, Fashion -- Part 2. Cultural Industries and Markets -- 3 Publishing: Books, Magazines, and Comics -- 4 Film Production -- 5 The Film Market: Distribution, Exhibition, and Stars -- 6 Radio and Recorded Music -- Part 3. Politics and Mass Culture -- 7 State Intervention in Cultural Activity -- 8 Civil Society and Organized Leisure -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1. The Oral History Project, by Marcella Filippa -- Appendix 2. Table of Interviewees -- Appendix 3. Questionnaire -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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