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  • Death and the Dolce Vita

    The Dark Side of Rome in the 1950s

    by Stephen Gundle ...
    "A brilliant, methodical investigation of a murder scandal that convulsed the Roman political and social establishment in the 1950s" ( Financial Times).On April 9 1953, twenty-one-year-old Wilma Montesi went missing from her family home in Rome. Thirty-six hours later her body was found washed up on a neglected public beach. Some said it was suicide; others, a tragic accident. But as the police ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Paul Ginsborg and the Historiography of Modern Italy

    Revolutions, Revolt and Resistance

    Edited by John Foot, Stephen Gundle ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book brings together a group of British and Italian scholars who have made significant contributions to the historiography of modern Italy over the last three decades, dedicated to the influence of Paul Ginsborg. Reflecting Ginsborg's interest in the encounter of social and political history in modern Italy, contributions explore the varied forms taken by activism in civil society. Rather ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Between Hollywood and Moscow

    The Italian Communists and the Challenge of Mass Culture, 1943–1991

    by Stephen Gundle, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    In the postwar years, Italy underwent a far-reaching process of industrialization that transformed the country into a leading industrial power. Throughout most of this period, the Italian Communist Party (PCI) remained a powerful force in local government and civil society. However, as Stephen Gundle observes, the PCI was increasingly faced with challenges posed by modernization, particularly by ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Fame Amid the Ruins

    Italian Film Stardom in the Age of Neorealism

    by Stephen Gundle ...
    Italian cinema gave rise to a number of the best-known films of the postwar years, from Rome Open City to Bicycle Thieves. Although some neorealist film-makers would have preferred to abolish stars altogether, the public adored them and producers needed their help in relaunching the national film industry. This book explores the many conflicts that arose in Italy between 1945 and 1953 over stars ... Read more

    Was $35.99 USD Now $26.99 USD

  • Mussolini's Dream Factory

    Film Stardom in Fascist Italy

    by Stephen Gundle ...
    The intersection between film stardom and politics is an understudied phenomenon of Fascist Italy, despite the fact that the Mussolini regime deemed stardom important enough to warrant sustained attention and interference. Focused on the period from the start of sound cinema to the final end of Fascism in 1945, this book examines the development of an Italian star system and evaluates its place in ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Annie Chartres Vivanti

    Transnational Politics, Identity, and Culture

    by Sabrina Cavallucci, Sara Ceroni, Chiara Chini, Ombretta Frau, Cristina Gragnani, Filippo Fonio, Ursula Fanning, Marianna Deganutti, Julie Dashwood, Noemi Crain-Merz, Stephen Gundle, Mariarosa Mettifogo, Enrico Minardi, Giulia Pezzuolo, Lisa Sarti, Simona Storchi, Anne Urbancic ...
    This book explores the work of a writer, Annie Chartres Vivanti (1866–1942), whobrought a transnational dimension to the marked provincialism of the Italian novel byaddressing issues of gender, ethnicity, and sexuality on personal and internationallevels, and by creating work that distanced itself from much of the female-penned literature ofthe day, scorning both decorum and social respectability. ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Mussolini's Dream Factory

    Film Stardom in Fascist Italy

    by Stephen Gundle ...
    The intersection between film stardom and politics is an understudied phenomenon of Fascist Italy, despite the fact that the Mussolini regime deemed stardom important enough to warrant sustained attention and interference. Focused on the period from the start of sound cinema to the final end of Fascism in 1945, this book examines the development of an Italian star system and evaluates its place in ... Read more

    Was $31.99 USD Now $23.99 USD

  • The cult of the Duce

    Mussolini and the Italians

    Edited by Stephen Gundle, Christopher Duggan, Giuliana Pieri ...
    The cult of the Duce is the first book to explore systematically the personality cult of the Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. It examines the factors which informed the cult and looks in detail at its many manifestations in the visual arts, architecture, political spectacle and the media. The conviction that Mussolini was an exceptional individual first became dogma among Fascists and then was ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Glamour

    A History

    by Stephen Gundle ...
    Glamour is one of the most tantalizing and bewitching aspects of contemporary culture - but also one of the most elusive. The aura of celebrity, the style of the fashion world, the vanity of the rich and beautiful, and the publicity-driven rites of café society are all imbued with its irresistible magnetism. But what exactly is glamour? Where does it come from? How old is it? And can anyone quite ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Migrant Cartographies

    New Cultural and Literary Spaces in Post-Colonial Europe

    by Angelika Bammer, Rosemarie Buikema, Theo D'Haen, Robert Fraser, Paul Gilroy, Stephen Gundle, Alec Hargreaves, Graham Huggan, Ena Jansen, Tabish Khair, Lourdes Lopez-Ropero, John McLeod, Pamela Pattynama, Mineke Schipper, Meyda Yegenoglu ...
    In recent years, Europe has had to constantly rethink and redefine its attitude toward new flows of immigrations. Issues of boundaries and identity have been integral to this reflection. Through a magnificent collection of essays, Migrant Cartographies examines both sites and conflicts and the way in which forms of belonging and identity have been reinvented. With careful analysis and exceptional ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The New Italian Republic

    From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to Berlusconi

    Edited by Stephen Gundle, Simon Parker ...
    The New Italian Republic charts the breakdown of the old party system and examines the changed political climate that has allowed Berlusconi to rise as Italy's new master and subsequently precipitated his rapid fall from power. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Mussolini's Ghost

    The Afterlife of a Dictator

    by Stephen Gundle ...
    Narrated by Nigel Patterson ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 30 min

    The Italian Fascist dictator Mussolini was killed in 1945, his body exhibited upside down in Milan before an angry crowd. The repudiation by the people of the dictator who had led them to disaster was complete. But his story did not end there. The Duce continued to live on thanks to a legacy that was multi-faceted and complex.In Mussolini's Ghost Stephen Gundle explores the many aspects of ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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