Synopses & Reviews
Bringing together scholars from the Italian and English-speaking worlds, this book reviews the history of the memory and representation of Fascism after 1945. Ranging in their study from patriotic monuments to sado-masochistic films, the essays ask how, why and when Mussolini's dictatorship mattered after the event and so provide a fascinating study of the relationship between a traumatic past and the changing present and future.
Review
The Myth of the bravo italiano dies hard, but Bosworth, Dogliani and their excellent collaborators provide a stake and silver bullet.
Journal of Modern Italian Studies
Synopsis
Bringing together scholars from the Italian and English-speaking worlds, this book reviews the history of the memory and representation of Fascism after 1945.
About the Author
R. J. B. Bosworth is Professor of History at the University of Western Australia.
Patrizia Dogliani is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Bologna.
Table of Contents
Peasant Memory--Roger Absalom * When Memory Goes: Italian Intellectuals Interpret Fascist Culture, 1945-55--Ruth Beh-Ghiat * Film Representation of Fascism: From
Rome: open city to
Mediterraneo --Richard Bosworth * Fascism and its Fall in RAI Documentaries--Guido Crainz * Constructing Memory and Anti-Memory: The Monumental Representation of Fascism and its Denial in Republican Italy--Patrizia Dogliani * The "Fascist Mentality" After Fascism--Mirco Dondi * Memory and Empire: Italy, Fascism and Popular Memory in the Dodecanese--Nick Doumanis * Days of Sodom: Fascism and Perversion in Italian Cinema of the Late 1960s and early 1970s--David Forgacs * Memory and the Representation of Fascism in Female Autobiographical Narrative--Elda Guerra * Italians in Germany 1938-1945: An Unfamiliar Aspect of the Rome-Berlin Axis--Brunello Mantelli * Memories and Identities: Fascism, Anti-Fascism, the Slav and
Italianità --Glenda Sluga * Croce versus Vico in the Construction of Post-Fascist Italy--David Ward