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America in Italian culture : the rise of a new model of modernity, 1861-1943 / Guido Bonsaver

Bonsaver, Guido, 1962- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2023]

xx, 554 Seiten : Illustrationen

Englisch

PrefaceIntroductionPart 1: The Discovery of America: 1861-19191: Cross-national Influence in Post-Unification Italy2: The Idea of America in Italy's Two Nations3: American Mass Production and the Dawn of Italian Mass Culture4: American Letters: Literature, Opera Librettos, and Pragmatism5: The Great War and the Arrival of JazzPart 2: America in Fascist Italy, 1922-19436: The USA as a Mirror of Modernity7: The Craze for American Literature and Comics, and the Plight of the English Language8: Dancing to Jazz on Fascist Airwaves9: The Lure of Hollywood10: American Culture in Fascism's Final Years (1938-1943)Conclusion

202311

978-0-19-884946-9

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1093/oso/9780198849469.001.0001

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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