Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War

David Forgacs is Professor of Italian at University of London. His research interests are in the cultural history of modern Italy and history of the media. He is author of Rome Open City and L'industrializzazione della cultura italiana (1800-2000) and editor with Robert Lumley of Italian Cultural Studies: An Introduction and with Sarah Lutton and Geoffrey Nowell-Smith of Roberto Ruossellini: Magician of the Real. He is currently Research Professor at the British School at Rome working on a three-year project (2006-2009) on language, space, and power in Italy since Unification. Stephen Gundle is Professor of Film and Television Studies at Warwick University. His research interests are in modern Italian cultural and poltiical history. He is author of Between Hollywood and Moscow: The Italian Communists and the Challenge of Mass Culture, 1943-1991 and Bellissima: Feminine Beauty and the Idea of Italy, and editor with Simon Parker of The New Italian Republic and, with Lucia Rinaldi, of Assassinations and Murder in Modern Italy. He is currently directing a large-scale collaborative project on "The Cult of the Duce: Mussolini and the Italianns, 1918-2005."

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. The Politics of Mass Culture
7. State Intervention in Cultural Activity
8. Civil Society and Organized Leisure

Conclusion

Appendix 1. The Oral History Project, by Marcella Filippa
Appendix 2. Table of Interviewees
Appendix 3. Questionnaire
Notes
Bibliography
Index