Auteur: Stephen Gundle

The cult of the Duce is the first book to explore systematically the personality cult of the Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. It examines the factors which informed the cult and looks in detail at …

This book explores the work of a writer, Annie Chartres Vivanti (18661942), whobrought a transnational dimension to the marked provincialism of the Italian novel byaddressing issues of gender, ethnic …

The intersection between film stardom and politics is an understudied phenomenon of Fascist Italy, despite the fact that the Mussolini regime deemed stardom important enough to warrant sustained atte …

Glamour is one of the most tantalizing and bewitching aspects of contemporary culture – but also one of the most elusive. The aura of celebrity, the style of the fashion world, the vanity of the rich …

Glamour is one of the most tantalizing and bewitching aspects of contemporary culture – but also one of the most elusive. The aura of celebrity, the style of the fashion world, the vanity of the rich …

The New Italian Republic charts the breakdown of the old party system and examines the changed political climate that has allowed Berlusconi to rise as Italy’s new master and subsequently precipitate …

“A brilliant, methodical investigation of a murder scandal that convulsed the Roman political and social establishment in the 1950s” (Financial Times).   On April 9 1953, twenty-one-year-old Wil …

The New Italian Republic charts the breakdown of the old party system and examines the changed political climate that has allowed Berlusconi to rise as Italy’s new master and subsequently precipitate …

The New Italian Republic charts the breakdown of the old party system and examines the changed political climate that has allowed Berlusconi to rise as Italy’s new master and subsequently precipitate …

The cult of the Duce is the first book to explore systematically the personality cult of the Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. It examines the factors which informed the cult and looks in detail at …

This book brings together a group of British and Italian scholars who have made significant contributions to the historiography of modern Italy over the last three decades, dedicated to the influence …

Italian cinema gave rise to a number of the best-known films of the postwar years, from Rome Open City to Bicycle Thieves. Although some neorealist film-makers would have preferred to abolish stars a …

In the postwar years, Italy underwent a far-reaching process of industrialization that transformed the country into a leading industrial power. Throughout most of this period, the Italian Communist P …