Gundle / Joseph / Rosenberg Between Hollywood and Moscow

The Italian Communists and the Challenge of Mass Culture, 1943–1991
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8034-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

Reihe: American encounters/global interactions

A study of the cultural policies of the Italian communist party following the collapse of fascismand the struggle with popular consumer culture that led to its demise in 1991.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gundle, Stephen

Joseph, Gilbert M.

Rosenberg, Emily S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Chapter One: Between Hollywood and Moscow
Politics, Culture, and Society after the Fall of Fascism

Chapter Two: Bread, Love, and Political Strife
Cold War Communism and the Development of Cultural Policy

Chapter Three: What’s Good for Fiat is Good for Italy
Television, Consumerism, and Party Identity in the 1950s

Chapter Four: From Elvis Presley to Ho Chi Minh
Youth Culture and Cultural Conflict Between the Centre Left and the Hot Autumn

Chapter Five: Crisis, Austerity, Solidarity
The Question of Hegemony in the 1970s

Chapter Six: Welcome to Prosperity
Economic Growth and the Erosion of Left-Wing Culture

Chapter Seven: The Last Tango
The Collapse of Communism and the Dissolution of the PCI

Conclusion

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Gundle is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Italian at Royal Holloway, the University of London.