Italian Fascism: History, Memory and Representation

by R.J.B. Bosworth, Patrizia Dogliani

Overview

Bringing together scholars from the Italian and English-speaking worlds, Bosworth and Dogliani's edited 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 here collected ask how and why and when Mussolini's dictatorship mattered after the event, and so provide a fascinating study of the relationship between a traumatic past and the changing present and future.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312217174
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/20/1999
Edition description:	1999
Pages:	245
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

ROGER ABSALOM Honorary Research Fellow, Sheffield Hallam University RUTH BEN-GHIAT Assistant Professor of History Fordham University, New York GUIDO CRAINZ Associate Professor of History, University of Teramo MIRCO DONDI post-doctoral fellow in History, University of Bologna NICHOLAS DOUMANIS Lecturer in History, University of Newcastle (Australia) DAVID FORGACS Reader in Film Studies, Department of Media Arts, University of London ELDA GUERRA Deputy Chair, Centre for Research on Women's Studies, Bologna BRUNELLO MANTELLI Lecturer in History, University of Turin GLENDA SLUGA Lecturer in History and Director of the Centre for European Studies, University of Sydney DAVID WARD Associate Professor of Italian, Wellesley College

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction; R.J.B.Bosworth and P.Dogliani Constructing Memory and Anti-memory: the Monumental Representation of Fascism and its Denial in Republican Italy; P.Dogliani Peasant Memory and the Italian Resistance 1943-45; R.Absalom Italians in Germany 1938-1945: An Aspect of the Rome-Berlin Axis; B.Mantelli From Croce to Vico: Carlo Levi's L'Orologio and Italian Anti-Fascism, 1943-46; D.Ward Liberation: Italian Cinema and the Fascist Past, 1945-50; R.Ben-Ghiat Film Memories of Fascism; R.J.B.Bosworth The Representation of Fascism and the Resistance in the Documentaries of Italian State Television; G.Crainz The Fascist Mentality after Fascism; M.Dondi The Italian Empire and brava gente : Oral History and the Dodecanese Islands; N.Doumanis Italian National Memory, National Identity and Fascism; G.Sluga Memory and Representation of Fascism: Female Autobiographical Narratives; E.Guerra Days of Sodom: the Fascism Perversion in Films of the 1960s and 1970s; D.Forgacs Index

Editorial Reviews

The Myth of the bravo italiano dies hard, but Bosworth, Dogliani and their excellent collaborators provide a stake and silver bullet. Journal of Modern Italian Studies

From the Publisher

Drawing especially from young scholars of Italian and English linguistic traditions, 12 essays explore the history of the memory and representation of the regime since the end of World War II. They consider official and unofficial monuments; memories of peasants, women, and emigrants to Nazi Germany; Dodecanese islanders; cinematic and film accounts; and other manifestations. One theme is how such a past becomes usable and why the usability is most often short-termed and precarious. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

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