Italian Industrial Literature and Film

Contents: History, Method, Legacy - Claudio Panella: Industrial Labor in Italian Literature and Film before Neorealism - Lorenzo Marmo: Spaces and Bodies of Industrial Labor in Italian Cinema, 1945- 1975 - Paola Bonifazio: A Short History of Sponsored Film in Italy - Jim Carter: For a New Humanism: Literary and Cultural Debate in Il Menabò di letteratura - Emanuele Zinato: The Factory as Cultural Center - Sergio Ferrarese: Alienation and Class Struggle in Italian Literature - Alessandra Diazzi: Care or Control? Psychology and Psychoanalysis in Italian Factories - Andrea Sartori: Class Struggle and Its Metamorphoses: A Path through Postwar Italian Political Thought - Ambra Zorat: Women and/ in the Factory - Piergiorgio Mori: Ecocritical Approaches to Factory Life - Paolo Chirumbolo: The City, the Countryside and the «Great Transformation» in Italian Industrial Literature - Francesca Cantore and Andrea Minuz: Against Working- Class Idols: Thieves, Vitelloni, Hunks and the Dolce Vita in 1950s Italian Cinema - Carlo Baghetti: Contemporary Returns to Questions of Industry and Labor - Malvina Giordana: Italian Cinema in the Twenty- First Century: Representing the Precarious Subject - Italian Industrial Literature - Ugo Fracassa: Luigi Davì: The Caliber of a Working- Class Writer - Fabrizio di Maio: Mechanization and Exploitation in Ottiero Ottieri: Tempi stretti (1957) and Donnarumma all'assalto (1959) - Tiziano Toracca: Giovanni Arpino's Industrial Novels: Gli anni del giudizio (1958) and Una nuvola d'ira (1962) - Silvia Cavalli: Industrial Absurdities and Utopia in Giancarlo Buzzi's Il senatore (1958) and L'amore mio italiano (1963) - Giovanni Capecchi: Failure and Solitude in the Boom Years: The Vigevano Stories of Lucio Mastronardi - Mark Pietralunga: Luciano Bianciardi and the New Frenetic Era of Labor - Daniele Fioretti: Writing the Factory: Paolo Volponi's Industrial Novels - Ricciarda Ricorda: Reversing the Coming- of- Age Story in Industrial Society: Il padrone

Carlo Baghetti is a postdoctoral fellow at the Casa Velázquez in Madrid (École des Hautes Études Hispaniques et Ibériques). He holds a PhD in Italian Studies from Aix-Marseille Université and l'Università degli Studi «La Sapienza» di Roma. He is the editor of Il lavoro raccontato. Studi su letteratura e cinema italiani dal postmodernismo all'ipermodernismo (2020) and a special issue of Costellazioni (2020) dedicated to representations of work in Europe.

Jim Carter is Lecturer of Italian at Boston University. His articles on Italian industrial culture, especially at the Olivetti company, have appeared in journals like Modern Italy and Italian Culture. In 2018-2019, he won a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome.

Lorenzo Marmo is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Universitas Mercatorum and also teaches at the Università degli Studi di Napoli «L'Orientale.» In 2017, he was Lauro de Bosis Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University. He is the author of Roma e il cinema del dopoguerra. Neorealismo melodramma noir (2018).