Bibliograph

After la dolce vita, a cultural prehistory of Berlusconi's Italy, Alessia Ricciardi

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After la dolce vita, a cultural prehistory of Berlusconi's Italy, Alessia Ricciardi

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

After la dolce vita

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Alessia Ricciardi

Series statement

Cultural memory in the past

Sub title

a cultural prehistory of Berlusconi's Italy

Summary

This book chronicles the demise of the supposedly leftist Italian cultural establishment during the long 1980s. 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

Target audience

adult

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