ISBN:
9780253219480
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9780253349811
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 351 p)
,
ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War
DDC:
302.230945/09044
Keywords:
Mass media History 20th century
;
Mass media Political aspects 20th century
;
History
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Mass media ; Italy ; History ; 20th century
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Mass media ; Political aspects ; Italy ; History ; 20th century
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The 1930s to the 1950s in Italy witnessed large increases in film-going, radio-listening, and the sale of music and weekly magazines. The industries that made and sold commercial, cultural products were transformed by the new technologies of reproduction and new approaches to marketing and distribution.Yet historians tend to place the "real" genesis of mass culture in the 1960s, or to generalize about the harnessing of mass culture to the Fascist political project, without considering what kind of mass cu
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Culture, Place, and Nation; Part 1. Cultural Consumption and Everyday Life; 1 Patterns of Consumption; 2 Practices of the Self: Intimacy, Sexuality, Sport, Fashion; Part 2. Cultural Industries and Markets; 3 Publishing: Books, Magazines, and Comics; 4 Film Production; 5 The Film Market: Distribution, Exhibition, and Stars; 6 Radio and Recorded Music; Part 3. Politics and Mass Culture; 7 State Intervention in Cultural Activity; 8 Civil Society and Organized Leisure; Conclusion
Description / Table of Contents:
Appendix 1. The Oral History Project, by Marcella FilippaAppendix 2. Table of Interviewees; Appendix 3. Questionnaire; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-344) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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