... FOUR Empire for the Poor Imperial Dreams and the Quest for an Italian Sociology, 1870s– 1950s marco santoro We speak to-day of North American Imperialism, of German Imperialism, of French Imperialism; soon we shall...

...chapter fourteen Italian Style, from Spies to Exotica-Erotica . . . . In Italy, spy music was particularly in vogue during the 1960s. A whole series of budget spy films all’italiana joined other genres like Peplum films (Hercules, Maciste, Ursus, and Samson battle in skimpy loincloths...

... claudio fogu / Italiani brava gente the legacy of fascist historical culture on italian politics of memory Italians seem to want to be freed from the war, Fascism, and...

...C h r i s F u j i w a r a Boredom, Spasmo, and the Italian System L’ennui, cette consolation incurable.  E. M. Cioran ​“ ne is almost never totally bored by a movie,” according to ​O​Christian Metz. The reason for this, Metz says, is the “affec...

... PREFACE TO THE ITALIAN EDITION The editions of Hegel’s works most frequently cited are abbreviated as follows: W = Werke in zwanzig Bänden, edited by E. Moldenhauer and K. M. Michel (Frankfurt: n. p., 1969–79); ph.g. = Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichte...

...Italian Opera in Early National Mexico NANCY VOGELEY Twelve years after Gioacchino Rossini's opera Mahometto II had its pre• miere in Naples, it was performed in full company in Mexico City. The event, on IsJune 1832, saw the same tenor entertaining in the former Spanish colony...

... Femininity in Flight Androgyny and Gynandry in Early Silent Italian Cinema The Airplane and the Cinema: Marinetti and D’Annunzio The first Italian airplane...

...CODA Part Italian, Part Many Things Else: Creating "Asia/Pacific" along a Honolulu- Taipei Line ofFlight In Pirandello we have, moreover, the critical awareness of being simultaneously "Sicilian," "Italian," and "European" Pirandello is critically a Sicilian "vil• lager" [local...

... 1 Circular Definitions: Configuring Gender in Italian Renaissance Festival na memorable passage on the philosophy of art, phenomenologist I Maurice Merleau-Ponty observes that the human subject's power to act and to perceive as a separate being...

... This chapter looks at Italian futurism as a founding aesthetic revolution of the twentieth century. The chapter first argues that futurism is to be situated within a longer history, taking off with romanticism, which presents the inclusion of (so far) “ugly” or inaesthetic objects into art as a...

... The chapter is made up of the afterword to the Italian edition of The Black Jacobins (December 2005). It is translated and published here in English for the first time. Written by the respected novelist of the Haitian Revolution Madison Smartt Bell, the chapter describes the writer’s encounter...

... politics, ones in which the traditional distinctions begin to get crowded out by emerging questions of ecology, biopolitical potentialities, and new rebellious collectives. Pitched somewhere between essay and conversation, this chapter records an exchange in which the voice of the Italian philosopher...