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«Povero Rock Hudson». I quotidiani italiani di fronte alla crisi dell'AIDS: un caso di studio (luglio-ottobre 1985)
No full textIl saggio analizza la rappresentazione dell’AIDS e dell’omosessualità maschile in nove quotidiani italiani in occasione della malattia e della morte del celebre attore Rock Hudson. Attraverso un’indagine linguistica e culturale, si evidenzia come la stampa italiana abbia mutuato stereotipi e narrazioni dalla comunicazione statunitense e si giunge a sostenere che espressioni come peste dei gay o l’uso delle virgolette attorno al termine gay riflettano non solo pregiudizi impliciti, ma anche strategie redazionali tese a un posizionamento sociale e politico. Il linguaggio giornalistico si rivela così strumento attivo nella costruzione del discorso pubblico sull’AIDS: da un lato contribuisce a consolidare una visione distorta e stigmatizzante della sindrome, dall’altro però suscita un’attenzione destinata a tradursi in crescente sensibilizzazione. Il caso Hudson diventa così una chiave interpretativa per riflettere sul ruolo dei media nella definizione di norme, identità e alterità in un decennio cruciale per la storia della salute e dei diritti LGBT+
Lega e «questione settentrionale» nei primi anni Novanta: le implicazioni culturali
No full textIl contributo approfondisce il dibattito culturale intorno all’ascesa della Lega nord nei primi anni Novanta, in una fase in cui il partito si appropriò non solo di motivi economici e giuridici, ma anche di elementi culturali, storici e religiosi in grado di accreditarlo come difensore di un’identità settentrionale. Il capitolo sottolinea tuttavia l’assenza di una sistematizzazione culturale, che impedisce di identificare una vera e propria cultura del Nord del paese con i valori e il sostrato culturale propagandati dal partito guidato da Umberto Bossi.The essay delves into the cultural debate surrounding the rise of the Northern League in the early 1990s, at a time when the party appropriated not only economic and legal motives, but also cultural, historical and religious elements capable of establishing it as the defender of a Northern identity. However, the chapter emphasises the lack of a cultural systematisation, which prevents the identification of a real culture of the North with the values and cultural substrate propagandized by the party led by Umberto Bossi.Ce chapitre est consacré au débat culturel qui a entouré la montée en puissance de la Ligue du Nord au début des années 1990, à une époque où le parti a su s’approprier non seulement des motifs économiques et juridiques, mais aussi des éléments culturels, historiques et religieux susceptibles de l’accréditer en tant que défenseur d’une identité du Nord. Le chapitre souligne toutefois l’absence de systématisation culturelle, qui empêche l’identification d’une véritable culture du Nord avec les valeurs et le substrat culturel propagés par le parti dirigé par Umberto Bossi
«Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien» : Roy Rosenzweig e il dibattito americano sulla public history agli albori del World Wide Web
Get PDFLo studio prende in esame il contributo fornito da Roy Rosenzweig al dibattito sulla public history tra gli anni Ottanta e i primi anni Duemila, una fase in cui il mondo accademico e quello scolastico iniziavano a scoprire le opportunità e i rischi del digitale. Storico americano di formazione democratica e radicale, Rosenzweig fu tra i primi a riconoscere i vantaggi che il digitale può portare nell’ambito della conservazione documentaria e dell’apprendimento, ma anche nell’educazione alla ricerca storica grazie all’accesso diretto alle fonti. Il saggio mette tuttavia in luce anche i limiti del digitale precocemente individuati da Rosenzweig, quali l’assenza di contestualizzazione delle fonti online e di controlli qualitativi su di esse, nonché le restrizioni del copyright. Rosenzweig suggeriva, infatti, di valutare costi e benefici della nuova tecnologia e ciò che essa comporta dal punto di vista educativo e della ricerca storica, proponendo ai colleghi di impegnarsi per garantire una più ampia democratizzazione della conoscenza e una piena accessibilità delle fonti primarie e secondarie.The essay examines Roy Rosenzweig’s contribution to the debate on public history from the 1980s to the early 2000s, a time in which academia and educational institutions began to get acquainted with opportunities and risks of digital data. Rosenzweig, an American historian with a democratic and radical background, was among the first to recognize the advantages of digital data management in the field of archiving and learning, and as far as historical research training is concerned thanks to the remote access to the sources. However, the article also discusses the limits of digital data, which Rosenzweig himself highlighted at an early stage, such as the possible lack of contextualization and of quality control of online historical sources, and copyright restrictions. Rosenzweig suggested assessing both costs and benefits of the new technologies and the outcomes from the point of view of education and historical research, recommending to historians a commitment to a widespread democratization of knowledge and to the full accessibility to primary and secondary sources
book series
Get PDFBetween the 1960s and the 1970s, Marxism reached its maximum success in Italy, but that phase also corresponded to the crisis of the Italian Communist Party’s cultural hegemony, challenged by both the attacks coming from the New Left and innovative readings of Marx’s works. Marxist historicism, on which the Italian Communist Party had based its cultural policy after the the Second World War, consequently suffered heavy attacks. This article illuminates one of the responses to historicism’s decline, providing an account of the book series La Scienza Nuova, issued by the publishing house Dedalo in Bari and edited by the communist intellectual Mario Spinella, who was able to remain loyal to his party demonstrating, at the same time, cultural autonomy. Also grounding on archival documents, the article posits that Spinella’s aim was to attract New Left readers by selecting books on topics and by authors that were in fashion in Italy and abroad, but incorporating them into a theoretical framework based on Marxist historicism, in order to preserve the latter in an evolving cultural environment
Developing Middlebrow Culture in Fascist Italy: The Case of Rizzoli’s Illustrated Magazines
Get PDFAngelo Rizzoli was one of Italy’s leading publishers in the interwar period and beyond, thanks to his business intuition and daring investments in the popular periodicals sector. In the 1920s and 1930s he published a galaxy of illustrated magazines aimed at the urban middle classes, which prove paradigmatic of a new form of Italian weeklies. The article posits that Rizzoli’s rotocalchi, based on entertaining content and photojournalism, were mediators par excellence in three areas. First, in publishing middlebrow fiction. Second, in translating short stories from linguistic and cultural milieus with a deliberate selection of specific literary genres, settings, and character types — a branding that emerges from investigating the weeklies Novella and Lei. Third, in the creation of a platform for interchange between literature, photography, and cinema, mainly in Cinema Illustrazione Presenta. Notwithstanding the obstacles put in their way by the Fascist regime and the censorship system, Rizzoli’s illustrated magazines introduced and spread models of female conduct that did not coincide with those proposed by the Fascists, while adapting them to common Italian cultural values and exploiting them for commercial purposes. As a typical expression of middlebrow culture based on leisure, respectability, and consumption, they repurposed messages from other media and foreign contexts, facilitating the penetration of modern behaviour patterns in Italy
Digital Humanities: responsabilità e opportunità (intervento per la Newsletter del Centro Apice, Università degli Studi di Milano)
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