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Introduction
No full textThe Introduction provides an overview of Paul Ginsborg’s life and work, highlighting his special contributions to the history of the Risorgimento and contemporary Italy. It considers his Cambridge periods and his emergence as a public intellectual in Italy following his move to Florence in the 1990s. Particular attention is paid to his activism and his interests in civil society and the family
Glamour : a history
No full textGlamour is one of the most tantalizing and bewitching aspects of contemporary culture - but also one of the most elusive.
The aura of celebrity, the style of the fashion world, the vanity of the rich and beautiful, and the publicity-driven rites of café society are all imbued with its irresistible magnetism. But what exactly is glamour? Where does it come from? How old is it? And can anyone quite capture its magic?
Stephen Gundle answers all these questions and more in this first ever history of the phenomenon, from Paris in the tumultuous final decades of the eighteenth century through to Hollywood, New York, and Monte Carlo in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from Napoleon to Marlene Dietrich and Marilyn Monroe, from Beau Brummell to Gianni Versace.
Throughout, the book captures the excitement and sex appeal of glamour while exposing its mechanisms and exploring its sleazy and sometimes tragic underside. As Gundle shows, while glamour is exciting and magnetic, its promise is ultimately an illusion that can only ever be partially fulfilled
Service-oriented models for audiovisual content storage
No full textWhat are the important topics to understand if involved with storage services to hold digital audiovisual content? This report takes a look at how content is created and moves into and out of storage; the storage service value networks and architectures found now and expected in the future; what sort of data transfer is expected to and from an audiovisual archive; what transfer protocols to use; and a summary of security and interface issues
Popular Music and the New Left in Italy during the 1970s
No full textAnalisi delle critiche che la sinistra extraparlamentare italiana degli anni '70 ha rivolto alla musica rock
Grasping Glamour
No full textThis review essay reviews: The Glamour System, by Stephen Gundle and Clino T. Castelli; Glamour: A History, by Stephen Gundle; Glamour in Six Dimensions: Modernism and the Radiance of Form, by Judith Brown; Glamour: Women, History, Feminism, by Carol Dyhouse
Bellissima : feminine beauty and the idea of Italy
No full text"Feminine beauty has been more discussed, appreciated, represented in art and associated with national, cultural identity in Italy than in any other country. This study investigates the debates and conflicts the issue provoked. Gundle examines the role of peasant beauty in symbolising the failed hopes of the Risorgimento, and the annexation of this by the establishment in the late nineteenth century; Fascism's failure to mould the ideal modern Italian woman; the politicization of beauty pageants after the Second World War; the symbolic role of film and television stars; and the controversy over the election of the first non-white Miss Italy in 1996." "Although the public discussion of feminine beauty was largely a male affair, the women were caught up in it, and who were seen, on account of their beauty, to embody the nation, were never passive objects. Indeed, they often used or manipulated the tradition of beauty for their own ends. This book explores these issues through the careers and public images of numerous prominent women including Queen Margherita of Savoy, the opera singer Lina Cavalieri, and the film stars Gina Lollobrigida, Sophia Loren, Claudia Cardinale and Monica Bellucci."
AC-6-U.S. Naval Planes Flying in Formation, Langley Field, VA/Thank-You Card from Stephen Tury to the Hungarian Defense Council.
No full textThis postcard, which depicts U.S. Naval planes flying in formation, was sent to the Hungarian Defense Council by Private Stephen Tury. The Council was organized in New Brunswick by leaders of local Hungarian churches and societies. During the Second World War it sent supplies, such as the carton of cigarettes Tury is thanking it for, to members of the military of Hungarian descent from the New Brunswick area
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