This book chronicles the demise of the supposedly leftist Italian cultural establishment during the long 1980s. During that time; the nations literary and intellectual vanguard managed to lose the prominence handed it after the end of World War II and the defeat of Fascism. What emerged instead was a uniquely Italian brand of cultural capital that deliberately avoided any critical questioning of the prevailing order. Ricciardi criticizes the development of this new hegemonic arrangement in film; literature; philosophy; and art criticism. She focuses on several turning points: Fellinis futile; late-career critique of Berlusconi-style commercial television; Calvinos late turn to reactionary belletrism; Vattimos nihilist and conservative responses to French poststructuralism; and Bonito Olivas movement of art commodification; Transavanguardia.
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