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Book SynopsisFollowing the more theoretical first installment of New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies devoted to Definitions, Theory, and Accented Practices, the second volume of New Perspectives deals with practicing cultural studies by offering articles that are valuable for both scholars of Italian studies and students interested in a cultural studies approach. Divided in four sections, the articles included offer complex approaches to literature, film, the visual arts, and a particular moment in Italian history with which Italians are still coming to terms, fascism. The essays cover about two hundred years of Italian cultures dealing with the construction of national myths, the role of soccer in contemporary debates, the contemporary success of mystery novels, and issues of race and crime in fascist Italy. Contributors look at film through the lens of fashion history and the particular Italian use of dubbing that continues even today. Place and memory are the topics of a number of essays that also allow for an interpretation of Italian culture inAmericans’ imagination. This volume contains a multifaceted representation of Italy and invites additional discussion on the complexity of representing cultures
Trade Review“Enhanced with a usefully comprehensive index, New Perspectives in Italian cultural Studies: The Arts and History is a seminal work of collective scholarship and highly recommended for academic library Italian History & Contemporary Culture reference collections and supplemental reading lists.” * Midwest Book Review *
Table of ContentsContents Graziella Parati “Cultural Critique and Italian Cultural Studies” 1.Fiction David Ward “Massimo D’Azeglio’s Ettore Fieramosca: The Necessity and the Joy of Fiction” Roberto Derobertis “From Serie A to Serie Africa and Back: Soccer, Race, and the Making of an Italian Identity in Brizzi’s L’inattesa piega degli eventi” Floriana Bernardi “Roberto Saviano: A Media Phenomenon to Recount the South” Gabriella Turnaturi (Translated by Karina Mascorro and Marie Orton) “The Invention of a Genre: The Mediterranean Noir” Krešimir Purgar “Literature as Film: Strategy and Aesthetics of ‘Cinematic’ Narration in the Novel Io non ho paura by Niccolò Ammaniti” 2.Film Antonella Sisto “Dubbing for Real” Eugenia Paulicelli “Cronaca di un amore: Fashion and Italian Cinema in Antonioni’s Films (1950-1955)” Bernadette Luciano and Susanna Scarparo “Contemporary Italian Women Filmmakers: Reframing the Past, The Present and Cinematic Tradition” 3.The Arts Elizabeth Mangini “Navigating a Cultural Chiasm: Giuseppe Penone’s Sculpture during the Anni di Piombo” Malcolm Angelucci “Bolzano’s Monument to Victory: Rhetoric, Sacredness, and Profanation” Alberto Bologna “The Cultural Contributions of Pier Luigi Nervi in the United States: 1952-1979” 4.Fascism Maria D’Anniballe “Form Follows Fiction: Redefining Urban Identity in Fascist Verona through the Lens of Hollywood’s Romeo and Juliet” Victoria Belco “Reading Crime in Fascist Italy” Eden Rebecca Knudsen “The Rhetoric of Race in Fascist Elementary Education” Contents Graziella Parati “Cultural Critique and Italian Cultural Studies” 5.Fiction David Ward “Massimo D’Azeglio’s Ettore Fieramosca: The Necessity and the Joy of Fiction” Roberto Derobertis “From Serie A to Serie Africa and Back: Soccer, Race, and the Making of an Italian Identity in Brizzi’s L’inattesa piega degli eventi” Floriana Bernardi “Roberto Saviano: A Media Phenomenon to Recount the South” Gabriella Turnaturi (Translated by Karina Mascorro and Marie Orton) “The Invention of a Genre: The Mediterranean Noir” Krešimir Purgar “Literature as Film: Strategy and Aesthetics of ‘Cinematic’ Narration in the Novel Io non ho paura by Niccolò Ammaniti” 6.Film Antonella Sisto “Dubbing for Real” Eugenia Paulicelli “Cronaca di un amore: Fashion and Italian Cinema in Antonioni’s Films (1950-1955)” Bernadette Luciano and Susanna Scarparo “Contemporary Italian Women Filmmakers: Reframing the Past, The Present and Cinematic Tradition” 7.The Arts Elizabeth Mangini “Navigating a Cultural Chiasm: Giuseppe Penone’s Sculpture during the Anni di Piombo” Malcolm Angelucci “Bolzano’s Monument to Victory: Rhetoric, Sacredness, and Profanation” Alberto Bologna “The Cultural Contributions of Pier Luigi Nervi in the United States: 1952-1979” 8.Fascism Maria D’Anniballe “Form Follows Fiction: Redefining Urban Identity in Fascist Verona through the Lens of Hollywood’s Romeo and Juliet” Victoria Belco “Reading Crime in Fascist Italy” Eden Rebecca Knudsen “The Rhetoric of Race in Fascist Elementary Education”
