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'Utopia and Dystopia is a skilful synthesis of the work of Calvino, Sanguineti, Volponi and Pasolini, cutting-edge intellectuals of the latter twentieth century. Fioretti's book fills a gap in our knowledge of the literature of commitment in Italy by connecting it to the tradition of utopian literature in Europe, a framework the author explores theoretically and practically, and applies to the texts of these very diverse authors. By virtue of his method and the elegant and streamlined nature of his prose, Fioretti succeeds in presenting this complex material in a way that is highly legible and inviting, whether to the novice reader or the expert.' - Thomas E. Peterson, Professor of Italian, University of Georgia, USA < This book is about the presence of utopian and dystopian elements in the Italian literary landscape. It focuses on four authors that are representatives of the various positions in the Italian cultural debate: Pasolini, Calvino, Sanguineti, and Volponi. What did concepts like utopia and dystopia mean for these authors? Is it possible to separate utopia from dystopia? What is the role of science fiction in this debate? This book answers these questions, proposing an original interpretation of utopia and of the social role of literature. The book also takes into consideration four of the most influential literary journals in Italy: Officina, il menabò, il verri, and Nuovi Argomenti, that played a central role in the cultural and political debate on utopia in Italy.

Literature. --- Literature, Modern --- Fiction. --- European literature. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- European Literature. --- 20th century. --- Utopias in literature. --- Italian literature --- Criticism and interpretation. --- European literature --- Literature --- Utopian literature --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- Fiction --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Novelists --- Philosophy --- Literature, Modern—20th century.

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'Utopia and Dystopia is a skilful synthesis of the work of Calvino, Sanguineti, Volponi and Pasolini, cutting-edge intellectuals of the latter twentieth century. Fioretti's book fills a gap in our knowledge of the literature of commitment in Italy by connecting it to the tradition of utopian literature in Europe, a framework the author explores theoretically and practically, and applies to the texts of these very diverse authors. By virtue of his method and the elegant and streamlined nature of his prose, Fioretti succeeds in presenting this complex material in a way that is highly legible and inviting, whether to the novice reader or the expert.' - Thomas E. Peterson, Professor of Italian, University of Georgia, USA < This book is about the presence of utopian and dystopian elements in the Italian literary landscape. It focuses on four authors that are representatives of the various positions in the Italian cultural debate: Pasolini, Calvino, Sanguineti, and Volponi. What did concepts like utopia and dystopia mean for these authors? Is it possible to separate utopia from dystopia? What is the role of science fiction in this debate? This book answers these questions, proposing an original interpretation of utopia and of the social role of literature. The book also takes into consideration four of the most influential literary journals in Italy: Officina, il menabò, il verri, and Nuovi Argomenti, that played a central role in the cultural and political debate on utopia in Italy.

Fiction --- Literature --- science fiction --- fantasy --- literatuur --- anno 1900-1999 --- Italy --- Europe

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Italian Americans in motion pictures. --- National characteristics in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures

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Italian Americans in Film and Other Media examines the representation of the Italian immigrant experience from D.W. Griffith’s Biograph Italian Dramas (1908-1913) to the present day. Building on the editors’ previous volume Italian Americans in Film, this collection broadens their scope to address marginalized aspects of Italian Americanness, including the work of women directors and depictions of same-sex relationships. The book consists of three parts. Part I, “The Immigrant Experience”, focuses on feature films and is divided into two sections: “Silent Films” (which analyses some of Griffith’s early films and Barker’s The Italian, 1915), and “Revising Gender Perspectives”, which includes chapters focusing on single films – such as Dmytryk’s Christ in Concrete (1949), De Michiel’s Tarantella (1995), and Bonifacio’s Amexicano (2007) – and survey essays that discuss the Italian American ‘celluloid closet’ and some of Savoca’s films. Part II, “Italian Americans in Other Media”, offers a wide range of essays informed by different approaches that investigate the immigrant experience in terms of transmediality and transnationality. The types of media examined in this section include television and graphic novels as well as puppetry, Instagram, and Internet memes. Part III contains interviews with Italian American scholars, movie directors, and performers. Together, the contributions to this collection demonstrate the vitality, mutation, and persistence of Italian Americanness in visual media. Daniele Fioretti is Associate Teaching Professor of Italian at Miami University, USA. He is the author of Utopia and Dystopia in Postwar Italian Literature (2017) and Carte di fabbrica. La narrativa industriale in Italia 1934-1989 (2013). He co-edited the book Italian Americans in Film: Establishing and Challenging Italian American Identities (2022). Fulvio Orsitto is Director of the Georgetown University campus in Fiesole, Italy. He has published more than thirty essays and book chapters on Italian and Italian American literature and cinema, and has edited and co-edited ten volumes, including Pasolini: American Perspectives (2015), TOTalitarian ARTs: The Visual Arts, Fascism(s) and Mass-society (2017), and Italian Americans in Film: Establishing and Challenging Italian American Identities (2022).

Immigrants in motion pictures. --- Italian Americans in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures, American. --- American Film and TV.

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Il corpus delle lettere che Paolo Volponi scrive a Pier Paolo Pasolini fra il 1954 e il 1975 rappresenta un documento di grande importanza, attraverso cui è possibile ricostruire lo sviluppo dell'opera poetica volponiana nel cruciale passaggio da una fase in cui sono ancora predominanti (per usare un'espressione dello stesso Volponi) le suggestioni post-ermetiche a un'altra in cui si fa sentire l'influenza di Pasolini e, più in generale, del neo-sperimentalismo di "Officina". Il risultato sarà la pubblicazione nel 1960 della raccolta "Le porte dell'Appennino" e il primo importante riconoscimento con la vittoria del Premio Viareggio. Oltre che mediatore con l'ambiente culturale romano (Bertolucci, Bassani, Moravia, Morante, Gadda), Pasolini è in questi anni una figura centrale per Volponi, amico e maestro al tempo stesso a cui sottopone le proprie poesie e richiede pareri e consigli. La presenza di stesure preparatorie e intermedie di alcuni testi poetici allegati alle lettere consentono di ripercorrere l'itinerario variantistico di numerosi componimenti presenti ne "Le porte dell'Appennino" e di valutare appieno la portata dei cambiamenti intervenuti.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo, --- Littérature italienne --- Critique et interprétation --- Correspondance. --- Volponi, Paolo --- Pasolini, Pier Paolo --- Authors, Italian --- Italian literature --- History and criticism --- Littérature italienne --- Pasolini, Pier Paolo, - 1922-1975