Fascist virilities : rhetoric, ideology, and social fantasy in Italy / by Spackman, Barbara, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Rhetorics of Virility: D'Annunzio, Marinetti, Mussolini, Benjamin; 2 Fascist Women and the Rhetoric of Virility; 3 Mafarka and Son: Marinetti's Homophobic Economics; 4 D'Annunzio and the Antidemocratic Fantasy; 5 Fascism as Discursive Regime; Notes; Index.…”
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To Italy : fantasy for flute : 1976 / revised 1981 / by Samama, Leo

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Italian Gothic : an Edinburgh companion /

Subjects: “…Fantasy literature, Italian History and criticism.…”
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Italo Calvino : a journey toward postmodernism / by Markey, Constance

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Da Vinci's cat : a novel / by Murdock, Catherine Gilbert

Three loves for three oranges : Gozzi, Meyerhold, Prokofiev /

Table of Contents: “…A cultural pastiche of fantasy, satire, and citrus : Gozzi's The love of three oranges in its German afterlife /…”
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Monteverdi's unruly women : the power of song in early modern Italy / by Gordon, Bonnie, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Vocal anatomies : mouths, breath, and throats in early modern Italy -- Back talk : the power of female song on the stage -- Madrigalian desire : the convergence of love and sex in madrigals -- Emblazoning Angioletta : musical fantasies and dissection -- Angry ladies : changing experiences of sensations -- Coda.…”

Waiting for Verdi : Italian opera and political opinion, 1815-1848 / by Smart, Mary Ann

Table of Contents: “…Risorgimento fantasies -- Accidental affinities: Gioachino Rossini and Salvatore Vigan? …”
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Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence / by Markey, Lia

Table of Contents: “…The New World and Italy in the early sixteenth century -- A turkey in a Medici tapestry -- The Americas in the Guardaroba Nuova -- Francesco's exchange and documentation of American nature -- The Stanzino and the representation of the New World -- Between ethnography and fantasy in Ferdinando's New World -- The Florentine Codex and Buti's frescoes of Amerindians -- Stradano's invention of the Americas -- The Americas both real and imagined.…”
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Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence / by Markey, Lia

Table of Contents: “…The New World and Italy in the early sixteenth century -- A turkey in a Medici tapestry -- The Americas in the Guardaroba Nuova -- Francesco's exchange and documentation of American nature -- The Stanzino and the representation of the New World -- Between ethnography and fantasy in Ferdinando's New World -- The Florentine Codex and Buti's frescoes of Amerindians -- Stradano's invention of the Americas -- The Americas both real and imagined.…”
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Italian cultural lineages / by White, Jonathan, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Kangaroos, Papyrus Scrolls, and the Poetics of Cultural History -- 1 Modes of Viewing: From Vasari to Film and Television Culture -- 2 Fantasy, Science, and Hyperreality: From Ariosto and Galileo to Las Vegas -- 3 Passion in the Operatic Repertoire -- 4 Capital Contrasts: Naples and Turin a Century before Unification -- 5 Justice and the Individual, Torture and the State -- 6 Italy's Romantic Reputation -- 7 Lifestyles High and Low in Changing Post-Unification Urbanism.…”
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Virgil's fourth Eclogue in the Italian Renaissance / by Houghton, L. B. T., 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Eclogue 4: text and translation -- Prolegomena -- Introduction: noua progenies -- A new age: the Virgilian renaissance -- Politics -- Florentine fantasies: Maro and the Medici -- Maritime Maro: Virgil in Venice -- Princely propaganda: the Italian states -- Vatican vaticinations: the papal golden age -- Religion -- Poet and Christian? …”
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The manly masquerade : masculinity, paternity, and castration in the Italian Renaissance / by Finucci, Valeria

Table of Contents: “…The Useless Genitor: Fantasies of Putrefaction and Nongenealogical Births -- Chapter 2. …”
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Italian cultural lineages / by White, Jonathan, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Kangaroos, Papyrus Scrolls, and the Poetics of Cultural History""; ""1 Modes of Viewing: From Vasari to Film and Television Culture""; ""2 Fantasy, Science, and Hyperreality: From Ariosto and Galileo to Las Vegas""; ""3 Passion in the Operatic Repertoire""; ""4 Capital Contrasts: Naples and Turin a Century before Unification""; ""5 Justice and the Individual, Torture and the State""; ""6 Italy's Romantic Reputation""; ""7 Lifestyles High and Low in Changing Post-Unification Urbanism""; ""Notes""…”
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Inventing falsehood, making truth : Vico and Neapolitan painting / by Bull, Malcolm

"We're friends, right?" : inside kids' cultures / by Corsaro, William A.

Table of Contents: “…: sharing and social participation in kids' culture -- "You wanna know what happened because you're my best friend" : making and being friends in kids' culture -- "You can't talk if you're dead" : fantasy and pretend play -- "When I grow up and you grow up, we'll be the bosses" : role-play in kids' culture -- "Arriva la banca" : kids' secondary adjustments to adult rules -- "You can't come to my birthday party" : conflict in kids' culture -- "Appreciating childhood" : suggestions for supporting and sharing in kids' culture.…”
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Re-viewing fascism : Italian cinema, 1922-1943 /

Table of Contents: “…Mussolini at the movies : fascism, film, and culture / Jacqueline Reich -- Dubbing l'arte muta : poetic layerings around Italian cinema's transition to sound / Giorgio Bertellini -- Intimations of neo-realism in the fascist Ventennio / ennio di Nolfo -- Placing cinema, fascism, and the nation in a diagram of Italian modernity / James Hay -- Sex in the cinema : regulation and transgression in Italian films, 1930-1943 / David Forgacs -- Luchino Visconti's (homosexual) Ossessione / William Van Watson -- Ways of looking in black and white : female spectatorship and the miscege-national body in Sotto la croce del sud / Robin Pickering-Iazzi -- Seeing red : the Soviet influence on Italian cinema in the thirties / Piero Garofalo -- Theatricality and impersonation : the politics of style in the cinema of the Italian fascist era / Marcia Landy -- Shopping for autarchy : fascism and reproductive fantasy in Mario Camerini's Grandi magazzini / Barbara Spackman -- The last film festival : the Venice Biennale goes to war / Marla Stone -- Film stars and society in fascist Italy / Stephen Gundle.…”
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Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism by Marcus, Millicent Joy

Table of Contents: “…Rossellini's Open city : the founding -- De Sica's Bicycle thief : casting shadows on the visionary city -- De Santis's Bitter rice : a neorealist hybrid -- De Sica's Umberto D : dark victory for neorealism -- Comencini's Bread, love, and fantasy : consumable realism -- Fellini's La strada : transcending neorealism -- Visconti's Senso : the Risorgimento according to Gramsci -- Antonioni's Red desert : abstraction as the guiding idea -- Olmi's Il posto : discrediting the economic miracle -- Germi's Seduced and abandoned : inside the honor code -- Pasolini's Teorema : the halfway revolution -- Petri's Investigation of a citizen above suspicion : power as pathology -- Bertolucci's The conformist : a morals charge -- Wertmuller's Love and anarchy : the high price of commitment -- Rosi's Christ stopped at Eboli : a tale of two Italies -- The Taviani brothers' Night of the shooting stars : ambivalent tribute to neorealism -- Scola's We all loved each other so much : an epilogue.…”
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Political Fellini : journey to the end of Italy / by Minuz, Andrea

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