Culture, Censorship and the State in Twentieth-century Italy

by Guido Bonsaver

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367604981
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/25/2020
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.62(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

List of Contributors x

Part I Mapping the Field

1 State, Culture, Censorship: An Introduction Guido Bonsaver Robert S. C. Gordon 2

2 How Exceptional were Culture-State Relations in Twentieth-Century Italy? David Forgacs 9

Part II The Fascist State and Culture

3 The Fascist Anthropological Revolution Emilio Gentile 22

4 Mussolini and the Italian Intellectuals Philip V. Cannistraro 34

5 L'Italia vera. Culture and the State in an Anti-Fascist Exile Journal Deborah Holmes 42

Part III Fascist Censorship

6 Fascist Censorship and Non-Fascist Literary Circles Albertina Vittoria 54

7 Women and Censorship in Fascist Italy: from Mura to Paola Masino Lucia Re 64

8 Theatrical Censorship in Italy during the Fascist Period Clive Griffiths 76

9 A Micro-History of State Censorship in Italy, 1931-39: The Case of Henry Furst George Talbot 86

Part IV From Fascism to Democracy: Transitions and Memories

10 Hollywood, Italy and the First World War: Italian Reactions to Film Versions of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms Stephen Gundle 98

11 Anti-Fascism and Literary Criticism in Postwar Italy: Revisiting the mito americano Jane Dunnett 109

12 The Italian State and the Resistance Legacy in the 1950s and 1960s Philip Cooke 120

Part V Archive and Memory: A Case Study

13 Ignazio Silone and the Politics of 'Archive Malice' Elizabeth Leake 134

14 The Double Bind of Ignazio Silone: Between Archive and Hagiography Stanislao Pugliese 142

Part VI Postwar Italy: Television, Theatre, Cinema, Media

15 Television and Censorship: Preliminary Research Notes Vanessa Roghi 150

16 Dario Fo, Franca Rame and the Censors Luciana D'Arcangeli 158

17 Film and the Anni di piombo: Representations of Politically-Motivated Violence in Recent Italian Cinema Alan O'Leary 168

18 Censorship in the Time of Berlusconi Alberto Abruzzese 179

Bibliography 191

Index 202