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• The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture
• Cambridge Companions to Culture
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Note on translation
• Chronology
• Introducing modern Italian culture
• Acompanion to modern Italian culture
• ‘Cultural studies’ and Italy
• ‘Culture’, ‘Italian’, ‘modern’
• NOTES
• FURTHER READING
• 1 The notion of Italy
• Introduction
• The geographical space
• The culture
• Nation-building: the Italian state and the notion of Italy
• Conclusion
• NOTES
• FURTHER READING
• 2 Social and political cultures in Italy from 1860 to the present day
• Introduction
• Socio-economic structures and political cultures after unification
• From Crispi to Giolitti: old and new cleavages, 1887–1914
• Italian Fascism: the creation of a homogeneous national culture?
• Italy’s political cultures after 1945
• Beyond the Cold War: Italy in the 1990s
• Conclusion
• NOTES
• FURTHER READING
• 3 Questions of language
• Unification and the
• From 1861 to 1921
• The Fascist period
• From 1944 to 1999
• NOTES
• FURTHER READING
• 4 Intellectuals, culture and power in modern Italy
• An idea of Italy
• Intellectuals in the early twentieth century
• Intellectuals and the Communist Party
• Intellectuals and culture in a changing Italy
• NOTES
• FURTHER READING
• 5 Catholicism
• Introduction
• Leo XIII and the Christian reconquest
• Papal teaching and instrumentalities
• Ideological concerns and propagation networks
• The orientation of the faithful
• John XXIII and the People of God
• The Pope and the Council
• Pluralism and dialogue
• Conclusion
• NOTES
• FURTHER READING
• 6 Socialism, Communism and other ‘isms’
• Marxism
• Reformism
• Syndicalism
• Socialism during the Giolitti ministries
• Mussolini
• Socialism after the Russian Revolution
• The Communists
• Against Fascism
• The post-war period
• The ‘historic compromise’
• The Craxi years
• NOTES
• FURTHER READING
• 7 Other voices: contesting the status quo
• Introduction
• Church and state: the cold war
• Power sharing with the mafia
• Remaking Italy: the terrorist strategy
• The Leagues and the anti-Risorgimento
• Feminism
• Unification
• The questione femminile
• The question of suffrage
• Other Feminisms
• From Futurism and Fascism to the New Feminism
• NOTES
• FURTHER READING
• 8 Narratives of self and society
• Berkeley, autumn 1995–spring 1996
• NOTES
• FURTHER READING
• 9 Searching for new languages: modern Italian poetry*
• Tradition: stimulus or millstone?
• Gradual innovation in the late nineteenth century
• The new movements of the early twentieth century
• New and old on the eve of the First World War
• Experimentalism and tradition in Ungaretti’s poetry
• Dante and Montale
• Petrarch and Quasimodo
• Hermeticism’s implosive silence: Luzi and Parronchi
• Lyricism versus Realism: Pavese, Bertolucci, Sereni
• War and Resistance: Sereni, Pasolini, Zanzotto
• Explosive silence: Luzi
• Paradoxical paradigms of language and dialect: Pasolini, Zanzotto and Bigongiari
• NOTES
• FURTHER READING
• 10 Drama: realism, identity and reality on stage
• Introduction
• Theatre of ideas
• Realism and dialect
• D’Annunzio and Svevo
• Futurism and the theatre of the grotesque
• Pirandello
• Fascism and the avant-garde
• Drama of commitment
• The Neapolitan drama of Viviani and De Filippo
• Dario Fo
• Drama from the 1960s to the present
• NOTES
• FURTHER READING
• 11 Italian cinema
• Italian silent cinema
• The coming of sound and the Fascist era
• Post-war Italian Neorealism
• The ‘crisis’ of Neorealism
• New directions after Neorealism
• Film comedy
• The ‘spaghetti’ Western and the
• film
• and the ‘art film’: Visconti, Antonioni, Fellini
• Anew generation of
• beyond Neorealism
• Post-1968 cinema: politics and ideology in the dramatic film
• Bittersweet laughter: social criticism in the
• Italian blockbuster epics
• The passing of the old guard and new faces at the dawn of the millennium
• FURTHER READING
• 12 Art in modern Italy: from the Macchiaioli to the Transavanguardia
• The Macchiaioli and the unification of Italy
• Divisionism
• The Futurist movement
• Metaphysical painting
• Art under Fascism
• The post-war period
• Artistic experimentation from the 1950s to the present
• NOTES
• FURTHER READING
• 13 Amodern identity for a new nation: design in Italy since 1860
• Introduction
• New goods for a new nation, 1860–1914
• The emergence of Italian modernism, 1914–1939
• From reconstruction to conspicuous consumption, 1939–1965
• From design to anti-design, 1965–1975
• Towards post-modernism, 1975 to the present
• FURTHER READING
• 14 Fashion: narration and nation
• NOTES
• FURTHER READING
• 15 The media
• Who and what are the media for?
• in the RAI newsrooms in 1991
• Press and commercial television ownership in Italy in 1989–1991
• Radio and reliability
• Waste
• NOTES
• FURTHER READING
• 16 Since Verdi: Italian serious music 1860–1995
• 1860–1900
• 1900–1930
• 1930–1960
• 1960–1995
• note
• FURTHER READING
• 17 Folk music and popular song from the nineteenth century to the 1990s
• NOTES
• FURTHER READING
• 18 Epilogue: Italian culture or multiculture in the new millennium?
• NOTES
• FURTHER READING
• Index