Italian Industrial Literature and Film

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Edited by Carlo Baghetti, Jim Carter and Lorenzo Marmo

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > Italy

Keywords

Italy, social aspects

Publishing date

2021

Publisher

Peter Lang

Collection

Panoramas - Italian Modernities

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 568 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-1-78874-598-7

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Book Presentation:
This book explores the representation of industrial labor in Italian literature and film from the 1950s through the 1970s. Italian literature and film are shown to interpret - and influence - developments in labor during this period, from agriculture to industry to information technologies.

About the authors:
Carlo Baghetti is a postdoctoral fellow at the Casa Velázquez in Madrid (École des Hautes Études Hispaniques et Ibériques). He holds a PhD in Italian Studies from Aix-Marseille Université and l’Università degli Studi «La Sapienza» di Roma. He is the editor of Il lavoro raccontato. Studi su letteratura e cinema italiani dal postmodernismo all’ipermodernismo (2020) and a special issue of Costellazioni (2020) dedicated to representations of work in Europe. Jim Carter is Lecturer of Italian at Boston University. His articles on Italian industrial culture, especially at the Olivetti company, have appeared in journals like Modern Italy and Italian Culture. In 2018–2019, he won a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome.Lorenzo Marmo is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Universitas Mercatorum and also teaches at the Università degli Studi di Napoli «L’Orientale.» In 2017, he was Lauro de Bosis Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University. He is the author of Roma e il cinema del dopoguerra. Neorealismo melodramma noir (2018).

See the publisher website: Peter Lang