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ISBN-10 :  0192589253 

ISBN-13 : 9780192589255

Author: Guido Bonsaver 

When America began to emerge as a world power at the end of the nineteenth century, Italy was a young nation, recently unified. The technological advances brought about by electricity and the combustion engine were vastly speeding up the capacity of news, ideas, and artefacts to travel internationally. Furthermore, improved literacy and social reforms had produced an Italian working class with increased time, money, and education. At the turn of the century, if Italy’s ruling elite continued the tradition of viewing Paris as a model of sophistication and good taste, millions of lowly-educated Italians began to dream of America, and many bought a transatlantic ticket to migrate there. By the 1920s, Italians were encountering America through Hollywood films and, thanks to illustrated magazines, they were mesmerised by the sight of Manhattan’s futuristic skyline and by news of American lifestyle. The USA offered a model of modernity which flouted national borders and spoke to all. It could be snubbed, adored, or transformed for one’s personal use, but it could not be ignored. Perversely, Italy was by then in the hands of a totalitarian dictatorship, Mussolini’s Fascism. What were the effects of the nationalistic policies and campaigns aimed at protecting Italians from this supposedly pernicious foreign influence? What did Mussolini think of America? Why were jazz, American literature, and comics so popular, even as the USA became Italy’s political enemy? America in Italian Culture provides a scholarly and captivating narrative of this epochal shift in Italian culture.

 America in Italian Culture: The Rise of a New Model of Modernity 1861-1943 1st Table of contents:

Part 1. The Discovery of America, 1861–1919
1. Cross-National Influence in Post-Unification Italy
1.1 The New Germany
1.2 The French Model
2. The Idea of America in Italy’s Two Nations
2.1 Describing America in Print
2.2 America Comes to Italy: William Cody’s Wild West
2.3 What America did Most Italians Dream of?
3. American Mass Production and the Dawn of Italian Mass Culture
3.1 Turin between French and American Culture: The Film Industry in 1904–1914
3.2 Turin between French and American Culture: The Car Industry in 1904–1914
Concluding Remarks
4. American Literature, Opera Librettos, and Pragmatism
4.1 American Literature and the Middlebrow
4.2 Migration to the USA in Italian literature and early cinema
4.3 American Pragmatism, Giovanni Papini, and the Florentine Pragmatist Club
Conclusion
5. The First World War and the Arrival of Jazz
5.1 The American Way at a Time of War
5.2 Jazz Music and the the Great War
Part 2. American Culture in Fascist Italy, 1922–1943
6. America as a Mirror of Modernity
6.1 Modern America in Full View
6.2 America in the Italian Press: Continuities and Developments
6.3 Mussolini, Fascism, and America
6.4 Technology as an American and Fascist Passion
6.5 The American Woman, Right or (Mainly) Wrong
6.6 Italian America and Return Migration
Conclusion
7. The Craze for American Literature and Comics, and the Plight of the English Language
7.1 English for Women, French for Understanding America
7.2 The Fortune of American Literature in the 1920s
7.3 The literary mito americano in the 1930s
7.4 The American Comics’ Craze: 1932–1938
8. Dancing to Jazz on Fascist Airwaves
8.1 Jazz from Above: The Futurists
8.2 From Ballrooms to Airwaves: The Fortunes of Jazz in the Interwar Years
8.3 Echoes of Italian American Jazz
9. The Lure of Hollywood
9.1 American Cinema in Italy
9.2 Fascism and American Cinema
9.3 Hollywood’s Mark in Interwar Italy
9.4 The Power of the American Dream
Conclusion
10. American Culture in Fascism’s Final Years, 1938–1943
10.1 American Culture and the New Order
10.2 American Tales in the Fascist War
10.3 Broadcasting Jazz after the Last Autarkic Turn
10.4 The War on Hollywood

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