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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780415103321

Autore

Torriglia Anna Maria

Titolo

Broken time, fragmented space : a cultural map for postwar Italy / / Anna Maria Torriglia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002

©2002

ISBN

1-4875-8668-X

1-282-02251-2

9786612022517

1-4426-7158-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Collana

Toronto Italian Studies

Disciplina

945.092

Soggetti

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian

Electronic books.

Italy Intellectual life 20th century

Italy Social life and customs 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Time Has Changed -- The Uneasy Relationship with the Past in the Postwar Period -- A Fatherless Generation: Pietro Germi's Gioventu perduta -- A Hero Astray: Vasco Pratolini's Un eroe del nostro tempo -- The Suicide of the Future: Rossellini's Germania anno zero -- From Mother to Daughter -- The Emergence of a Female Genealogy -- The War as Emotional Setting: Anna Banti's Artemisia -- Female Solidarity: Alba de Cespedes's Dalla parte di lei -- Cinema Rediscovers Women -- 'La' Magnani, or about Motherhood and Visconti's Bellissima -- The Myth of America -- The Antecedent -- Revisionism at Work: Cesare Pavese and Giuseppe De Santis -- The Rossellini-Bergman Affair: Stromboli terra di Dio -- The Lost Train of Cultural Blending: De Sica's Stazione Termini -- The Myth Is Over: Pavese's La luna e i falo -- The Country at Hand -- The Journey -- The South: Ernesto De Martino and Rocco Scotellaro -- Naples: Ortese's Il mare non bagna Napoli and Rossellini's Viaggio in Italia -- Toward a Postmodernist Paradigm:



Antonioni's Le amiche.

Sommario/riassunto

Examines how the artists and intellectuals of post-war Italy dealt with the 'shameful' heritage of their fascist upbringing and education by trying to craft a new cultural identity for themselves and the country.