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A Second Renaissance: Italian Literary Cultures in the USA after World War II
No full textThis essay introduces the special issue “Transatlantic Literary Transfers in the Second Italian Renaissance: Italian culture in the US in the Postwar Era,” presenting new knowledge on the collaborative, transnational network that emerged between Italy and the United States in the postwar years and facilitated the circulation of Italian literary products in the US.
By considering literary objects as a special class of products that participated to the establishment and consolidation of “Made in Italy,” and by showing how Italian literary cultures functioned as vectors of a “new” Italian modernity, the essay claims that the success of “Made in Italy” was due in no small part to a storytelling strategy that emphasized: 1) the strong friendship between the two nations in the context of the new, globalized world; 2) the mobilization of the trope of the Renaissance in the service of a projected continuity between Italian early and “new” modernity
Transatlantic literary transfers in the Second Italian Renaissance: the circulation of Italian culture in the U.S. in the post-war era
No full textThis essay introduces the special issue “Transatlantic Literary Transfers in the Second Italian Renaissance: Italian culture in the US in the Postwar Era,” presenting new knowledge on the collaborative, transnational network that emerged between Italy and the United States in the postwar years and facilitated the circulation of Italian literary products in the US.
By considering literary objects as a special class of products that participated to the establishment and consolidation of “Made in Italy,” and by showing how Italian literary cultures functioned as vectors of a “new” Italian modernity, the essay claims that the success of “Made in Italy” was due in no small part to a storytelling strategy that emphasized: 1) the strong friendship between the two nations in the context of the new, globalized world; 2) the mobilization of the trope of the Renaissance in the service of a projected continuity between Italian early and “new” modernity
“Transatlantic Modern Consumerisms: Italian Goods and Commercial Cultures in Postwar America”
No full textCultural history of the early development and success of Made in Italy. The essay claims the origins of Made in Italy in the U.S.-Italy transatlantic context between 1949 and 1972. Methodologically, the project moves from a broad interpretation of the Made in Italy concept, understood not only as a commercial label, consumer style, and economic resource, but also as a public discourse on Italian identity and historical-cultural construct in the making
Comunicare il passato. Cinema, giornali e libri di testo nella narrazione storica. TORINO,L'Harmattan Italia, ISBN: 88-88684-82-4
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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Now that's Italian! representations of Italian food in American popular magazines, 1950-2000
Get PDF"Few things identify Italy and Italians (and home and abroad) as food. Food occupies center stage in
many popular representations of Italian national culture, and the market of Italian Food (i.e., the
food represented, perceived, and exchanged as “Italian”) has reached global dimensions. Since food
is a cultural artifact, imbued with meanings and values, the cross-cultural consumption of Italian
cuisine is a significant marker of the way in which others see and imagine Italy and the Italians.
Everyday, massive numbers of consumers in different places purchase commodified Italian
identities in a culinary form. What are the images and symbols that Italian Food conveys and why
are attractive? How these images and symbols have been changing over time and for the effect of
what forces? Given the size of the American market for Italian Food and the role of the United
States as a site of production of internationally distributed images in the second half of the
Twentieth Century, the case study of the consumption of Italian Food in postwar America is
essential to any historical approach to these issues. The case study also makes an interesting
example of changing mechanisms of “consumption of the Other” in contemporary America.
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
"Vasárnapi ebéd? Ott kell lenned!" : az étkezés társadalmi jelentősége olasz Harlemben 1920 és 1940 között
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