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This book brings together literary critics, political historians,
historians of literature, cinema and theatre and cultural
sociologists, to elucidate a fundamental area of enquiry into
modern Italian history: the nature and scope of relations between
the state and the cultural sphere.
Recent work on the cultural history of modern Italy has radically
challenged received opinion about the relationship of state and
culture during the twentieth century. In this rich
interdisciplinary book the complex interactions and negotiations of
control arising from this state-culture connection are elucidated
by way of case studies of major authors, filmmakers and artists and
their encounters with censorship, patronage and other forms of
direct state intervention; analytical surveys of different periods,
media and culture industries; and through an examination of such
key issues as Fascist censorship, the Resistance and its imprint in
the collective memory, the introduction of television in the 1950s,
and 1970's terrorism.
Italy is one of the most recent immigratory destinations in Europe,
having long been one of the continent's most important sources of
emigration. Due to its strategic position in the Mediterranean, the
Italian peninsula is a crossroads of complex transnational
movements and represents a unique and dynamic context for the study
of contemporary migration and its representation through the
diverse channels of media, literature and film. The product of a
two-year interdisciplinary research project into representations of
migration to Italy, this volume brings together scholarly
contributions from the fields of migration studies, linguistics,
media, literature and film studies as well as essays by
practitioners and activists. It provides both a multi-faceted
snapshot of how diverse representations of immigration capture
experiences and affect decision-making dynamics and an in-depth
study of how media, literature and cinema contribute to the public
perception of migrants within the destination culture.
The history of totalitarian states bears witness to the fact that
literature and print media can be manipulated and made into
vehicles of mass deception. Censorship and Literature in Fascist
Italy is the first comprehensive account of how the Fascists
attempted to control Italy's literary production.Guido Bonsaver
looks at how the country's major publishing houses and individual
authors responded to the new cultural directives imposed by the
Fascists. Throughout his study, Bonsaver uses rare and previously
unexamined materials to shed light on important episodes in Italy's
literary history, such as relationships between the regime and
particular publishers, as well as individual cases involving
renowned writers like Moravia, Da Verona, and Vittorini. Censorship
and Literature in Fascist Italy charts the development of Fascist
censorship laws and practices, including the creation of the
Ministry of Popular Culture and the anti-Semitic crack-down of the
late 1930s.Examining the breadth and scope of censorship in Fascist
Italy, from Mussolini's role as 'prime censor' to the specific
experiences of female writers, this is a fascinating look at the
vulnerability of culture under a dictatorship.
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