{"product_id":"pasta-pizza-and-propaganda-a-political-history-of-italian-food-tv-9781789384062","title":"Pasta, Pizza and Propaganda: A Political History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book aims to develop a political history of Italian ‘good food’ on national television, and the central role of food in Italian culture. The focus is highly original and this is a unique interdisciplinary study at the intersection between food studies, media studies and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe three protagonists of \u003cem\u003ePasta, Pizza and Propaganda\u003c\/em\u003e are food, television and politics. These are the three main characters that interrelate, collaborate and fight behind the scenes, while in front of the camera the writers, intellectuals and celebrity chefs talk about, prepare or taste the best Italian dishes.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe book retraces the history of Italian food television from a political point of view: the early shows of the pioneers under strict Catholic control in the 1950s and 1960s, the left-wing political twist of the 1970s, the conservative \u003cem\u003eriflusso\u003c\/em\u003e or resurgence of the 1980s, the disputed Berlusconian era and the rise of the celebrity chefs, which, for better or for worse, makes Italy similar to the other western countries.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe history of Italy since the mid-1950s is retold through the lenses of food television. This lively book demonstrates that cooking spaghetti in a TV studio is a political act, and tries to uncover how it is possible that, while watching on TV how to make pizza, we become citizens.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe primary readership will be an academic audience, including those in the disciplines of food studies, media studies, politics and Italian studies, as well as potentially for those interested in Italian sociology and anthropology. There may be a potential wider readership because of the popularity of Italian food and food television.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Buscemi provides in-depth discussions on the important links between British and Italian food culture, television, politics and associated industries and behaviours. [...] [This book] will be valuable to students of television generally, and particularly those taking an interdisciplinary approach to media, food, culture, politics and globalisation. Buscemi provides a capsule case study of the development over sixty years of Italian television and the journey of food through those decades, witnessing changes to gender expectations, ideas of being a ‘better’ Italian and the possibility of food being used to promote a political ‘lie’ (p. 138) to viewers. [It] considers the culinary and cultural capital that the presenters acquire through television appearances and then use in their representations of the politics of food, world events and aspects of our lives which are far from frivolous.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Kevin Geddes, Critical Studies on Television\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction                                                                                                             \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Literature review, theoretical framework and methodology        \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Politics, television and food in Italy: Dangerous liaisons                       \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Politics in Italy after the Second World War                                             \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Television in Italy                                                                             \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Italian food between reality and stereotypes                              \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Italian food TV                                                                                  \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Theoretical framework                                                                                \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Methodology                                                                                                 \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Conclusion                                                                                                    \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Broadcasting sacred food: 1954–1970                                             \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Soldati's journey to the Po Valley                                                              \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Soldati's conception of genuineness                                                         \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Nature and culture                                                                                     \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Culture and the past                                                                                               \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Where are the women?                                                                               \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Soldati's sacred food                                                                                   \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Linea contro linea                                                                                       \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Conclusion                                                                                                    \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 3: 1971–1980: The ephemeral wind of change                                              \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            A new political scenario                                                                               \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            The new scenario on TV: RAI's reformation                                             \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            A Tavola alle 7                                                                                              \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            The relationship between Veronelli and Ninchi                          \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Ninchi, Veronelli and the field of Italian politics in the 1970s    \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Dimmi Come Mangi and the dawn of neo-TV                                          \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Conclusion                                                                                                    \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 4: 1981–1999: Going back home (and to the kitchen)                        \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Riflusso and Italy in the 1980s and 1990s                                                           \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Wilma De Angelis and home cooking                                                         \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            A Pranzo con Wilma                                                                         \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Food television becomes a genre                                                              \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Conclusion                                                                                                    \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Eating TV: Food on Berlusconian television, 2000–2012                \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            The celebrity housewives and their shows                                             \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            La Prova del Cuoco                                                                          \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Women between power and stereotype                                      \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Serving sacred food in Trattoria                                                   \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            The contrasted discovery of foreign food                                               \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Food in the news                                                                                         \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Conclusion                                                                                        \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 6: 2012–the present, the Italian way to the celebrity chef              \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            The invasion of the global formats           \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            A case of Italian adaptation: From kitchen nightmares to Cucine da Incubo\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            A Cena da Me: Representing food to talk about something else          \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Food Network Italia                                                                                     \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            The new celebrity chefs                                                                            \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Alessandro Borghese e Simone Rugiati\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            MasterChef                                       \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Italian food out of Italy                                                       \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Dietary chefs and their enemies                                                   \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            The tough chef                                                                               \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Female professional cooking                                                                      \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Benedetta Rossi, the anti-chef                                                        \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Conclusion    \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Intellect Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042575548759,"sku":"9781789384062","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789384062.jpg?v=1750954706","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pasta-pizza-and-propaganda-a-political-history-of-italian-food-tv-9781789384062","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}