Italian fascism : history, memory, and representation / edited by R.J.B. Bosworth and Patrizia Dogliani.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bosworth, R. J. B.

Dogliani, Patrizia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fascism--Italy--Historiography.

Fascism.

Fascism and culture.

Historiography.

Anti-fascist movements.

History.

Italy.

Italy--History--1922-1945--Historiography.

Anti-fascist movements--Italy--Historiography.

Fascism and culture--Italy--Historiography.

Physical Description:

viii, 245 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, [England] : MacMillan Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Summary:

Bringing together scholars from the Italian and English-speaking worlds, this book reviews the history of the memory and representation of Fascism after 1945. Ranging in their study from patriotic monuments to sado-masochistic films, the essays provide a fascinating study of the relationship between a traumatic past and the changing present and future.

Contents:

1 Constructing Memory and Anti-Memory: the Monumental Representation of Fascism and its Denial in Republican Italy / Patrizia Dogliani 11

2 Peasant Memory and the Italian Resistance, 1943-45 / Roger Absalom 31

3 Italians in Germany, 1938-45: an Aspect of the Rome-Berlin Axis / Brunello Mantelli 45

4 From Croce to Vico: Carlo Levi's L'orologio and Italian Anti-Fascism, 1943-46 / David Ward 64

5 Liberation: Italian Cinema and the Fascist Past, 1945-50 / Ruth Ben-Ghiat 83

6 Film Memories of Fascism / R.J.B. Bosworth 102

7 The Representation of Fascism and the Resistance in the Documentaries of Italian State Television / Guido Crainz 124

8 The Fascist Mentality after Fascism / Mirco Dondi 144

9 The Italian Empire and brava gente: Oral History and the Dodecanese Islands / Nicholas Doumanis 161

10 Italian National Memory, National Identity and Fascism / Glenda Sluga 178

11 Memory and Representations of Fascism: Female Autobiographical Narratives / Elda Guerra 195

12 Days of Sodom: the Fascism-Perversion Equation in Films of the 1960s and 1970s / David Forgacs 216.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0333712064

031221717X

OCLC:

39477978