After la dolce vita : a cultural prehistory of Berlusconi's Italy / Alessia Ricciardi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ricciardi, Alessia.

Series:

Cultural memory in the present.

Cultural memory in the past

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and culture--Italy--History--20th century.

Politics and culture.

Italy--History--1976-.

Italy.

Italy--Intellectual life--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Sweetness

2. Lightness

3. Weakness

4. Softness

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780804782586

080478258X

OCLC:

795120550