Culture and Conflict in Postwar Italy: Essays on Mass and Popular Culture.

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Part 1 History, culture, language - the Italian experience: family, culture and politics in contemporary Italy, Paul Ginsborg Italy - tradition, backwardness and modernity, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith how popular is Italian?, Giulio Lepschy. Part 2 Religion, politics, social movements - culture and people: uniformity undone - aspects of Catholic culture in postwar Italy, Percy Allum the Italian Communist party and culture, David Forgacs challenging tradition - social movements, cultural changes and the ecological question, Robert Lumley. Part 3 Mass culture and intellectuals: Pier Paolo Pasolini - culture, Gramsci, Zygmunt Baranski Umberto Eco - theory and practice in the analysis of the media, David Robey rolling away from the centre towards X - some notes on Italian philosophy, weak thought and postmodernism, Ian Chambers. Part 4 Two case-studies - design and cinema in postwar Italy: from neorealism to Lucci Rosse - cinema, politics, society 1945-85, Stephen Gundle home for everybody?, design, ideology and the culture of the home in Italy, 1945-72, Penny Sparkes. Part 5 Looking at television - from public service to competition: a guide to the neo-television of the 1980's, Umberto Eco hard times for public service broadcasting - the RAI in the age of commercial competition, Giuseppe Richeri the Berlusconi phenomenon, Philip Schlesinger the evolution of television language in Italy since deregulation, Mauro Wolf TGI - the eight o'clock news on RAI Uno, Christopher Wagstaff imported Utopias, Lidia Curti.