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Loading... After la dolce vita : a cultural prehistory of Berlusconi's Italyby Alessia Ricciardi
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This book chronicles the demise of the supposedly leftist Italian cultural establishment during the long 1980's. During that time, the nation's literary and intellectual vanguard managed to lose the prominence handed it after the end of World War II and the defeat of Fascism. What emerged instead was a uniquely Italian brand of cultural capital that deliberately avoided any critical questioning of the prevailing order. Ricciardi criticizes the development of this new hegemonic arrangement in film, literature, philosophy, and art criticism. She focuses on several turning points: Fellini's futile, late-career critique of Berlusconi-style commercial television, Calvino's late turn to reactionary belletrism, Vattimo's nihilist and conservative responses to French poststructuralism, and Bonito Oliva's movement of art commodification, Transavanguardia. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)945.092History and Geography Europe Italy and region Italy United Italy 1870-LC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |