Staging the Fascist War

Luigi Petrella

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 26
• Drawing on largely unexplored sources such as government papers, personal memoirs, censored letters and confidential reports, Staging the Fascist War ... Lees meer

Luigi Ghirri and the Photography of Place

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 27
• The Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri was one of the most significant visual artists of the late twentieth century. This volume introduces his photogr... Lees meer

National Belongings

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 7
• Scholars of Italian colonialism have been reluctant to acknowledge the influence that local populations and their culture had on Italians and on the w... Lees meer

Undoing Time

Eleanor Chiari

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 14
• The walls of Le Nuove prison in Turin are scarred by graffiti, bullets and blood. Opened in 1870, Le Nuove was one of Italy's first panoptical prisons... Lees meer

Reframing Migration

Federica Mazzara

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 32
• This book reframes the debate around migration in the Mediterranean, and specifically around Lampedusa, by exploring how art forms - including works b... Lees meer

Digression

Olivia Santovetti

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 1
• 'Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; - they are the life, the soul of reading'. So declared Laurence Sterne in his Tristram Shandy , the gre... Lees meer

Migrant Imaginaries

Jennifer Burns

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 18
• Examining five central figures and concepts - identity, memory, home, place and space, and literature - across a range of novels and stories by writer... Lees meer

Ten Steps

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 23
• This book is a journey into the thought and poetry of Giacomo Leopardi. It sheds new light on his compound of poetic imagination and philosophical com... Lees meer

Queer Ventennio

John Champagne

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 34
• Exploring the contribution of Italy to our understanding of both the history of homosexuality and European modernism, this ground-breaking study analy... Lees meer

Eccentricity and Sameness

Charlotte Ross

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 22
• Dispelling widespread views that female same-sex desire is virtually absent from Italian literature and cultural production, this groundbreaking study... Lees meer

Psychiatry, Subjectivity, Community; Franco Basaglia and Biopolitics

Alvise Sforza-Tarabochia

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 15
• Law 180, which abolished mental asylums in Italy, was passed in 1978. It came to be known as the 'Basaglia Law', after the physician whose work revolu... Lees meer

Freud and Italian Culture

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 3
• This book explores the different ways in which psychoanalysis has been connected to various fields of Italian culture, such as literary criticism, phi... Lees meer

Italian Political Cinema

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 38
• Despite recent societal anti-political sentiments, Italian cinema has continued to address politics, including reflections on public life, memory, and... Lees meer

Italian Orientalism

Fabrizio De Donno

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 33
• The on-going debate on the legacies of European Orientalism has yet to fully consider its Italian context. This book is a literary and intellectual hi... Lees meer

Modernitalia

Jeffrey Schnapp

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 13
• Modernitalia provides a map of the Italian twentieth century in the form of twelve essays by the celebrated cultural historian Jeffrey T. Schnapp. Shu... Lees meer

Tragedia All'italiana

Alan O'Leary

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 9
• Cinema has played a key role in articulating the impact and legacies of the so-called anni di piombo in Italy, the years of intra-national political t... Lees meer

Entering the Frame

Robert Lumley

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 10
• Entering the Frame is the first complete study of the cinema of Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi, pioneers of archival and found-footage film... Lees meer

Women and Gender in Post-Unification Italy

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 16
• In the nineteenth century a woman's place was considered to be in the home. During the Risorgimento and the years following the Unification of Italy i... Lees meer

The Eloquence of Ghosts

Florian Mussgnug

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 5
• Giorgio Manganelli (1922-1990), one of Italy's most radical and original writers, went further than most in exploring the creative possibilities of hy... Lees meer

Conflicts of Memory

Emiliano Perra

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 8
• Situated at the confluence of history, media and cultural studies, this book reconstructs the often deeply discordant and highly selective memories of... Lees meer

Destination Italy

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 21
• Due to its strategic Mediterranean position, Italy is a crossroad of complex transnational movements, a unique context for the study of contemporary m... Lees meer

Matera, 1945-1960

Patrick McGauley

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 31
• The southern Italian city of Matera was dubbed a national disgrace in the immediate post-war period due to media and political focus on its distinctiv... Lees meer

Bruno Munari

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 28
• Bruno Munari was one of the most important and eclectic twentieth-century European artists. Dubbed the «Leonardo and Peter Pan» of contemporary art, h... Lees meer

Fictions of Appetite

Enrico Cesaretti

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 17
• Investigates the recurrence and aesthetic significance of images of food, appetite and consumption in works by F.T. Marinetti, Aldo Palazzeschi, Massi... Lees meer