{"product_id":"after-la-dolce-vita-alessia-ricciardi-9780804781497","title":"After La Dolce Vita: A Cultural Prehistory of Berlusconi's Italy","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book chronicles the demise of the supposedly leftist Italian cultural establishment during the long 1980s. During that time, the nation's 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: Fellini's futile, late-career critique of Berlusconi-style commercial television, Calvino's late turn to reactionary belletrism, Vattimo's nihilist and conservative responses to French poststructuralism, and Bonito Oliva's movement of art commodification, Transavanguardia. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alessia Ricciardi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804781494\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804781497\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/25\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Alessia Ricciardi","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46250448847103,"sku":"9780804781497","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_29184e76-c8e6-4deb-89e5-204dda3b0bb0.jpg?v=1729600352","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/after-la-dolce-vita-alessia-ricciardi-9780804781497","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}