Italian Pop Culture

What does the expression pop culture mean today? And how does it contribute to understanding a Country and a cultural group? This collection of essays, diverse in content, approach and perspective, tries to answer these questions. It aims at describing and figuring out the texture of Italian pop culture – as a meaningful juxtaposition between high and low, mass and elite, artistic and consumerist – in relation to the Italian mediascape and cultural context.

Through the mosaic of narratives produced by television, music, comics and novels, to name a few, and the mixture of genres and types of cultural products analyzed in every essay, the reader is allowed to further the knowledge of Italian pop culture and to get a glimpse of Italians and ‘Italian-ness’.

• Fabio Corsini, Introduction: Working Out the Puzzle of Italian Popular Culture
• Paolo Biondi, Understanding Italian Comics Culture: Hugo Pratt, the 9^th Art and Politics
• Marco Bracci And Edoardo Tabasso, Stil Novo. The Legendarily Adventurous Route of Italian Music in Search of Pop Maturity
• Milly Buonanno, Fallen Heroes and Anti-Heroines: The Mafia Story in Italian TV Drama
• Fabio Corsini, Italian Webseries: The New (yet Old) Way of Storytelling
• Flavia Monceri, Porn as a Cultural Product
• Anna Lucia Natale, In the Beginning There Was the Radio… Contexts and Genres of Radio Entertainment
• Nicoletta Peluffo, The Adventures of Pinocchio: An Outcome of Popular Culture
• Kristin Stasiowski, A Divine Comedy for All Time: Dante’s Enduring Relevance for the Contemporary Reader
• Bernardo Valli, Italy and the Search for Modernity: At the Origins of Made in Italy
• Contributors

• Paolo Biondi

• Marco Bracci

• Milly Buonanno

• Fabio Corsini

• Flavia Monceri

• Anna Lucia Natale

• Nicoletta Peluffo

• Kristin Stasiowski

• Edoardo Tabasso

• Bernardo Valli

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