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Ferrari, Fabio Lorenzo.

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Italian myths and counter-myths of America: Allegorical representations of America in 20th-century Italian literature and film.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Italian myths and counter-myths of America: Allegorical representations of America in 20th-century Italian literature and film./
Author:	Ferrari, Fabio Lorenzo.
Description:	464 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Rebecca West.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-02A.
Subject:	Cinema. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3206321
ISBN:	9780542548871

Italian myths and counter-myths of America: Allegorical representations of America in 20th-century Italian literature and film.
Ferrari, Fabio Lorenzo.

Italian myths and counter-myths of America: Allegorical representations of America in 20th-century Italian literature and film. - 464 p.

Adviser: Rebecca West.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2006.

As it has been told, the story is as seductive as it is misleading: Italy's entre-deux-guerres love affair with a far-away country whose democratic spirit provided hope to a nation struggling under tyrannical rule. The story's leading protagonists tend to be celebrated in Italian literary history as budding anti-Fascist writers: Cesare Pavese and Elio Vittorini. Clandestine heroes of a nascent Resistance movement, these authors are said to have suffered for their passion for American culture at a time when Mussolini's totalitarian regime identified in the United States a dangerous nemesis against which Italy should be protected at all costs.

ISBN: 9780542548871Subjects--Topical Terms:

854529
Cinema.

Italian myths and counter-myths of America: Allegorical representations of America in 20th-century Italian literature and film.
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520 $a As it has been told, the story is as seductive as it is misleading: Italy's entre-deux-guerres love affair with a far-away country whose democratic spirit provided hope to a nation struggling under tyrannical rule. The story's leading protagonists tend to be celebrated in Italian literary history as budding anti-Fascist writers: Cesare Pavese and Elio Vittorini. Clandestine heroes of a nascent Resistance movement, these authors are said to have suffered for their passion for American culture at a time when Mussolini's totalitarian regime identified in the United States a dangerous nemesis against which Italy should be protected at all costs.
520 $a In its present form, this colorful reading of Italian literary history certainly has the makings of a good Hollywood film. And like so many Hollywood films, the plot becomes all the more engaging because it exploits the emotional appeal of a series of deja vus which almost guarantee its popular success. After all, how many American films have romanticized the battle of an enlightened minority against a brutal tyrant; the victory of freedom against oppression; the triumph of good (democratic America) versus evil (a foreign despot)?
520 $a The main objective of my work is to bypass the sensational allure of historical simplifications surrounding the so-called mito americano and, in so doing, to shed new light on authors such as Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, Mario Soldati, Emilio Cecchi, Margherita Sarfatti, Pavese, and Vittorini. Spanning the decades prior to and following World War II, I also investigate the creative treatment of the American symbol by Italian filmmakers such as Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini, and Michelangelo Antonioni.
520 $a In short, my dissertation contests the dominant trend in critical approaches to the mito americano, which I believe has been unfairly politicized. To this end, I return to the authors in question, isolating their work from retrospective political claims. What emerges is an alternative hypothesis as to the transideological nature of Italian symbolic representations of America which I consider, theoretically, on the plane of a nation's collective psychology: as myths and counter-myths functioning, beyond specific political agendas, in the service of Italian national identification processes.
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