When Italy unified in 1861, America was emerging as a world power, and advances in communication allowed Italians a view of American life to which they could aspire. America in Italian Culture traces this huge cultural shift, looking at how US fiction, comics, music, and film came to dominate Italian culture, even as the countries went to war.
When Italy unified in 1861, America was emerging as a world power, and advances in communication allowed Italians a view of American life to which they could aspire. America in Italian Culture traces this huge cultural shift, looking at how US fiction, comics, music, and film came to dominate Italian culture, even as the countries went to war.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Guido Bonsaver is Professor of Italian Cultural History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Pembroke College. He studied at the universities of Bologna and Verona, and completed his PhD while teaching at Reading University. Before arriving at Oxford in 2003, he taught at the universities of Sussex, Kent, and Royal Holloway London. In 2012 he was appointed Ufficiale dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica by the Italian government in recognition of his contribution to Italian culture. He has collaborated with a variety of media outlets such as BBC radio and television channels, RAI radio and tv channels, and various specialist and generalist journals. His research work centres on Italy's post-Unification cultural history, with a particular interest in literature and cinema.
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Preface Introduction Part 1: The Discovery of America: 1861-1919 1: Cross-national Influence in Post-Unification Italy 2: The Idea of America in Italy's Two Nations 3: American Mass Production and the Dawn of Italian Mass Culture 4: American Letters: Literature, Opera Librettos, and Pragmatism 5: The Great War and the Arrival of Jazz Part 2: America in Fascist Italy, 1922-1943 6: The USA as a Mirror of Modernity 7: The Craze for American Literature and Comics, and the Plight of the English Language 8: Dancing to Jazz on Fascist Airwaves 9: The Lure of Hollywood 10: American Culture in Fascism's Final Years (1938-1943) Conclusion
Preface Introduction Part 1: The Discovery of America: 1861-1919 1: Cross-national Influence in Post-Unification Italy 2: The Idea of America in Italy's Two Nations 3: American Mass Production and the Dawn of Italian Mass Culture 4: American Letters: Literature, Opera Librettos, and Pragmatism 5: The Great War and the Arrival of Jazz Part 2: America in Fascist Italy, 1922-1943 6: The USA as a Mirror of Modernity 7: The Craze for American Literature and Comics, and the Plight of the English Language 8: Dancing to Jazz on Fascist Airwaves 9: The Lure of Hollywood 10: American Culture in Fascism's Final Years (1938-1943) Conclusion
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