×


 x 

Shopping cart
10%OFFAlessia Ricciardi - After La Dolce Vita: A Cultural Prehistory of Berlusconi´s Italy - 9780804781503 - V9780804781503
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.

After La Dolce Vita: A Cultural Prehistory of Berlusconi´s Italy

€ 32.99
€ 29.73
You save € 3.26!
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for After La Dolce Vita: A Cultural Prehistory of Berlusconi´s Italy Paperback. This book chronicles the demise of the so-called leftist Italian cultural establishment during the long 1980s. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; JFC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 225 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.

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 ... Read more

Show Less

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Memory in the Present
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804781503
SKU
V9780804781503
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Alessia Ricciardi
Alessia Ricciardi is Associate Professor of French and Italian at Northwestern University. Her book, The Ends of Mourning: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Film (Stanford, 2003), won the MLA's 2004 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies.

Reviews for After La Dolce Vita: A Cultural Prehistory of Berlusconi´s Italy
"There is no sweetness, lightness, weakness, or softness in Ricciardi's indictment, but hard facts and bitter truths piled up to heavy conclusions: Italy's intellectual life is the very culprit of a historical process of progressive civic and social degeneration that has led to the catastrophe that many have called Berlusconi's Italy. A very courageous book."
Roberto M. Dainotto Duke ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for After La Dolce Vita: A Cultural Prehistory of Berlusconi´s Italy


Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!