Resisting the Tide : Cultures of Opposition Under Berlusconi (2001-06).
Title:
Resisting the Tide : Cultures of Opposition Under Berlusconi (2001-06).
Author:
Albertazzi, Daniele.
ISBN:
9781441171061
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (269 pages)
Contents:
Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Glossary -- A -- C -- D -- F -- G -- I -- L -- M -- P -- R -- T -- U -- W -- Introduction: This Tide is not for Turning -- Part 1 The Economic and Media Landscapes -- Chapter One: Italy during the Berlusconi Years: The Economy and Society -- Chapter Two: The Changing Face of the Media: A Catalogue of Anomalies -- Chapter Three: Electoral Campaigning and the New Media -- Part 2 Political Challenges -- Chapter Four: In Bed with the Enemy - Infighting among Governing Parties and the Return of the Centre -- Chapter Five: Defeated and Divided? The Left in Opposition -- Chapter Six: Challenging from the Grass Roots: The Girotondi and the No Global Movement -- Part 3 Texts -- Chapter Seven: Silenced Humour on RAI TV: Daniele Luttazzi, Sabina Guzzanti & Co. -- Chapter Eight: The Cinema of Resistance: Nanni Moretti's Il caimano and the Italian Film Industry -- Chapter Nine: Staging Opposition: Il Signor Rossi e La Costituzione -- Chapter Ten: Web Challenges to Berlusconi: An Analysis of Oppositional Sites -- Chapter Eleven: Mascelloni, Masks and Mascara: Writing, Language and Power in Vincenzo Consolo -- Chapter Twelve: Adjusting the Cold Mirror: Berlusconi and Il Corriere della Sera -- Part 4 Experiences and Personalities -- Chapter Thirteen: 'Adopt a Domestic Worker?': The Response of Immigrant Associations to the Centre-Right -- Chapter Fourteen: Feminist Activism and Practice: Asserting Autonomy and Resisting Precarity -- Chapter Fifteen: Collective Association in the LGBT Movement -- Chapter Sixteen: Political Cleansing and Censorship in Public Television - A Case Study of Michele Santoro and Enzo Biagi -- Conclusions: Splinters of Resistance -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V.
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Abstract:
Edited by members of the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Birmingham, and bringing together academics in Britain, Ireland, the US and Italy, this volume takes an international perspective on Italian events. It investigates how resistance to the new conservative culture has been articulated, and how this has been expressed and explained by those involved. The volume is divided into four areas: 1. The Economic and Media Landscapes, which sets the scene for the rest of the book by explaining how Italian society, and particularly its media environment, have developed in recent years; 2. Political Challenges, which discusses the main threats to the authority and policies of Berlusconi coming from within his own centre-right coalition, the left and social movements; 3. Texts, which analyses films, internet sites, television programmes, novels, newspaper articles and theatre performances that sought to resist increasingly dominant conservative norms and/or respond to events set in motion by the Berlusconi governments;ÃÂ 4.Experiences, covering the voices and practices of those who have opposed Berlusconi from within the cultural industries and identity movements, such as journalists, LGBT activists, feminists and associations representing immigrant communities. Wide-ranging, innovative and challenging, this volume should appeal to all those who have an interest in Italy, political-, media- and cultural studies. ÃÂ.
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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