Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture

Name: Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture
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ISBN: 9780521559829

ISBN-10: 0521559820

ISBN-13: 9780521559829

Edition: 2001

Authors: Zygmunt G. Baranski, Rebecca J. West

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This collection of essays provides a comprehensive account of the culture of modern Italy. Contributions focus on a wide range of political, historical and cultural questions. The volume provides information and analysis on such topics as regionalism, the growth of a national language, social and political cultures, the role of intellectuals, the Church, the left, feminism, the separatist movements, organised crime, literature, art, design, fashion, the mass media, and music. While offering a thorough history of Italian cultural movements, political trends and literary texts over the last century and a half, the volume also examines the cultural and political situation in Italy today and…

Book details

List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/16/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Zygmunt G. Baranski is Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Reading and the Editor of the interdisciplinary journal The Italianist.

Rebecca J. West is Professor of Italian and Cinema/Media Studies, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago.



Chronology of events


Introducing modern Italian culture




The notion of Italy




Social and political cultures in Italy 1860 to the present day




Questions of language




Intellectuals, culture and power in modern Italy




Catholicism




Socialism, Communism and other 'isms'




Other voices: contesting the status quo




Searching for new languages: modern Italian poetry




Drama: realism, identity and reality on stage




Italian cinema




Art in modern Italy: from the Macchiaioli to the Transvanguardia




A modern identity for a new nation: design in Italy after 1860 Penny Sparke: Fashion: narration and nation




The media




Since Verdi: Italian music 1860-1995




Folk music and popular song from the nineteenth century to the 1990s



Epilogue: Italian culture or multiculture in the new millennium



Index