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  • Italian Industrial Literature and Film

    Perspectives on the Representation of Postwar Labor

    Series Book 40 - Italian Modernities
    «Questo volume […] non si limita a descrivere, ma ricompone un quadro finora assente. I 37 capitoli che compongono questo volume-monstre dettagliano aspetti, figure, momenti spesso messi da parte nel dibattito. … Attraverso i diversi capitoli il lettore percepisce la pervasività [dell’industria] che si fa ideologema, le sue diverse realizzazioni e simbolizzazioni artistiche (cinematografiche e ... Read more

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  • Italian Industrial Literature and Film

    Perspectives on the Representation of Postwar Labor

    Series Book 40 - Italian Modernities
    This book explores the representation of industrial labor in Italian literature and film from the 1950s through the 1970s. The first article of the postwar Italian Constitution states that the Republic is founded on labor. Forces across the political spectrum, from Catholic to communist, invested labor with the power to build a new national community after Fascism and war. The 1950s-1970s saw ... Read more

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