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By Alessia Ricciardi

This e-book chronicles the loss of life of the supposedly leftist Italian cultural institution in the course of the lengthy Eighties. in the course of that point, the nation's literary and highbrow forefront controlled to lose the prominence passed it after the tip of global struggle II and the defeat of Fascism. What emerged as a substitute was once a uniquely Italian model of cultural capital that intentionally kept away from any serious wondering of the present order. Ricciardi criticizes the advance of this new hegemonic association in movie, literature, philosophy, and paintings feedback. She specializes in numerous turning issues: Fellini's futile, late-career critique of Berlusconi-style advertisement tv, Calvino's overdue flip to reactionary belletrism, Vattimo's nihilist and conservative responses to French poststructuralism, and Bonito Oliva's move of artwork commodification, Transavanguardia.

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