R J B Bosworth

Italian Fascism: History, Memory and Representation R J B Bosworth 1999 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 "Italianita" --Glenda Sluga * Croce versus Vico in the Construction of Post-Fascist Italy--David WardReview Quotes: 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"Biographical Note: 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. Publisher Marketing: Bringing together scholars, especially young ones, from the Italian- and English-speaking world, Bosworth and Dogliani's edited book reviews the history of the memory and representation of Fascism after 1945. Among the matters discussed are monumental representations of Fascism and war (official and unofficial, Italian and 'Slav'), the memories of such traumatic times that are held by peasants, women, volunteer emigrants to Nazi Germany, Dodecanese islanders and any who retained a mentality affected by the dictatorship, as well as cinematic and film accounts of the Fascist past. With its attention ranging from patriotism to sadomasochism, the book asks important questions about the way in which Italians have remembered and forgotten their history under Mussolini and is therefore of interest to any who wonder about how a past becomes usable and why such usability is most often short-term and precarious. Publisher Marketing: Drawing especially from young scholars of Italian and English linguistic traditions, 12 essays explore the history of the memory and representation of the regime since the end of World War II. They consider official and unofficial monuments; memories of peasants, women, and emigrants to Nazi Germany

Contributor Bio:  Bosworth, R J B R. J. B. Bosworth is Professor at the Department of History, University of Western Australia.