Baranski Zygmunt G., West Rebecca J. (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture

Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 371 p.This book provides a comprehensive account of the culture of modern Italy. Specially commissioned essays by leading specialists focus on a wide range of political, historical and cultural questions. The volume provides information and analysis on such topics as regionalism, the growth of a national language, social and political cultures, the role of intellectuals, the Church, the left, Feminism, the separatist movements, organized crime, literature, art, design, fashion, the mass media and music.List of illustrationsNote on translation
Chronology
Introducing modern Italian culture (Zygmunt G. Barański)
The notion of Italy (John Dickie)
Social and political cultures in Italy from 1860 to the present day (Anna Cento Bull)
Questions of language (Brian Richardson)
Intellectuals, culture and power in modern Italy (David Ward)
Catholicism (Percy Allum)
Socialism, Communism and other ‘isms’ (Robert S. Dombroski)
Other voices: contesting the status quo (Sharon Wood And Joseph Farrell)
Narratives of self and society (Gian-paolo Biasin)
Searching for new languages: modern Italian poetry (Shirley W. Vinall And Tom O’neill)
Drama: realism, identity and reality on stage (Ann Laura Lepschy)
Italian cinema (Peter Bondanella)
Art in modern Italy: from the Macchiaioli to the Transavanguardia (Eugenia Paulicelli)
Amodern identity for a new nation: design in Italy since 1860 (Penny Sparke)
Fashion: narration and nation (Eugenia Paulicelli)
The media (Christopher Wagstaff)
Since Verdi: Italian serious music 1860–1995 (John C. G. Waterhouse)
Folk music and popular song from the nineteenth century to the 1990s (Alessandro Carrera)
Epilogue: Italian culture or multiculture in the new millennium? (Rebecca J. West)