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基本説明
In the postwar years the Italian Communist Party remained a powerful force in local government and civil society. Gundle focuses on the theme of cultural policy that were intended to respond to the Americanization of daily life in Italy.
Full Description
In the postwar years, Italy underwent a far-reaching process of industrialization that transformed the country into a leading industrial power. Throughout most of this period, the Italian Communist Party (PCI) remained a powerful force in local government and civil society. However, as Stephen Gundle observes, the PCI was increasingly faced with challenges posed by modernization, particularly by mass communication, commercial cultural industries, and consumerism. Between Hollywood and Moscow is an analysis of the PCI's attempts to cope with these problems in an effort to maintain its organization and subculture.
Gundle focuses on the theme of cultural policy, examining how the PCI's political strategies incorporated cultural policies and activities that were intended to respond to the Americanization of daily life in Italy. In formulating this policy, Gundle contends, the Italian Communists were torn between loyalty to the alternative values generated by the Communist tradition and adaptation to the dominant influences of Italian modernization. This equilibrium eventually faltered because the attractive aspects of Americanization and pop culture proved more influential than the PCI's intellectual and political traditions.
The first analysis in English of the cultural policies and activities of the PCI, this book will appeal to readers with an interest in modern Italy, the European left, political science, and media studies.
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Chapter One: Between Hollywood and Moscow
Politics, Culture, and Society after the Fall of Fascism
Chapter Two: Bread, Love, and Political Strife
Cold War Communism and the Development of Cultural Policy
Chapter Three: What's Good for Fiat is Good for Italy
Television, Consumerism, and Party Identity in the 1950s
Chapter Four: From Elvis Presley to Ho Chi Minh
Youth Culture and Cultural Conflict Between the Centre Left and the Hot Autumn
Chapter Five: Crisis, Austerity, Solidarity
The Question of Hegemony in the 1970s
Chapter Six: Welcome to Prosperity
Economic Growth and the Erosion of Left-Wing Culture
Chapter Seven: The Last Tango
The Collapse of Communism and the Dissolution of the PCI
Conclusion
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