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Dallo Squadrone Bianco ai “moschettieri del duce”: aneddoti e curiosità dal ventennio fascista Quello del fascismo è un argomento che è stato sviscerato da quasi ogni prospettiva e in un numero incalcolabile di pubblicazioni. La nascita con i fasci di combattimento, lo sviluppo dell’ideologia e la presa del potere: sono tutte tappe che ogni appassionato di storia, italiana e non solo, conosce ormai a menadito. Eppure, il Ventennio fascista nasconde ancora qualcosa che merita di essere scoperto. In questo libro, Marco Lucchetti porta sotto i riflettori gli aspetti che sono stati spesso ignorati dalla saggistica storica: una preziosa carrellata di aneddoti, storie mai raccontate, curi...
Although primitivism has received renewed attention in recent years, studies linking it with Latin America have been rare. This volume examines primitivism and its implications for contemporary debates on Latin American culture, literature, and arts, showing how Latin American subjects employ a Western construct to "return the gaze" of the outside world and redefine themselves in relation to modernity. Examining such subjects as Julio Cortázar and Frida Kahlo and such topics as folk art and cinema, the volume brings together for the first time the views of scholars who are currently engaging the task of cultural studies from the standpoint of primitivism. These varied contributions include ...
The Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema provides a better understanding of the role Italian cinema has played in film history through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, appendixes, black-&-white photos, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on actors, actresses, movies, producers, organizations, awards, film credits, and terminology.
From the earliest developments of thought, mankind believed that some significant coincidences were signs by which a higher philosophical or divine level sought to inter-dialogue with men. In the last three centuries this had been erased from the new directions of science. Extraordinary coincidences were considered as fruits of chance. Anyone who wanted to interpret extraordinary events as divine signals was mocked. In the same way, premonitions were considered illusions or even signs of imbalance. This, despite many had experienced these extraordinary facts. Science denied the existence of a psychic dimension with which the human mind could interact. According to the common opinion, the onl...