The Culture of Reconstruction
Published in April 1989
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-333-45794-8 (ISBN)
Description
The period following World War II was one of intense cultural activity as writers, artists and film-makers attempted to respond to the drama of the war-experience itself and to the tasks of European reconstruction. Italian neorealist film-makers, the new generation of West German writers and the exponents of commitment in France seemed to be exploring new directions in cultural activity and laying the ground for a new European renaissance. Here, 12 scholars explore aspects of French, German and Italian culture in the years 1945-50, analyze the positive elements of this renaissance, but discover an essential paradox - that the culture of the new, through both external and internal factors, was more conservative than is often apparent, and that reconstruction was more often the rebuilding of the old than an attempt at experimentation and innovation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
notes, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 148 mm
Weight
450 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-45794-8 (9780333457948)
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01/1989
Palgrave Macmillan
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Content
The Communist Party and the politics of cultural change in postwar Italy, 1945-50, S.Gundle; writing and the real world - Italian narrative in the period of reocnstruction, M.Caesar; the making and unmaking of Neorealism in postwar Italy, D.Forgacs; the place of neorealism in Italan cinema form 1945 to 1954, C.Wagstaff; tradition and social change in the French and Italian cinemas of the reconstruction, P.Sorlin; humanism and national unity - the ideological reconstruction of France, M.Kelly; "Les Lettres Francais" and the failure of the French postwar renaissance, N.Hewitt; the reconstruction of culture - "peuple et culture" and the popular education movement, B.Rigby; the chameleon rearguard of cultural tradition - the case of Jacques Laurent, C.Nettlebeck; German literature in 1945 - liberation for a new beginning?, H.Peitsch; continuity or change? aspects of West German writing after 1945, K.Bullivant; West German theatre in the period of reconstruction, U.Fries.