Between Hollywood and Moscow

Stephen Gundle is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Italian at Royal Holloway, the University of London.

• Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction Chapter One: Between Hollywood and MoscowPolitics, Culture, and Society after the Fall of Fascism Chapter Two: Bread, Love, and Political StrifeCold War Communism and the Development of Cultural Policy Chapter Three: What’s Good for Fiat is Good for ItalyTelevision, Consumerism, and Party Identity in the 1950s Chapter Four: From Elvis Presley to Ho Chi MinhYouth Culture and Cultural Conflict Between the Centre Left and the Hot Autumn Chapter Five: Crisis, Austerity, SolidarityThe Question of Hegemony in the 1970s Chapter Six: Welcome to ProsperityEconomic Growth and the Erosion of Left-Wing Culture Chapter Seven: The Last TangoThe Collapse of Communism and the Dissolution of the PCI Conclusion Bibliography

“The book is an original contribution to knowledge based on a prodigious amount of research. . . . A significant achievement.” - Stephen Hellman (International History Review) “Stephen Gundle's book is a highly original contribution to our knowledge of the culture and politics of modern Italy, combining as it does theoretical sophistication with extensive empirical research.”-Paul Ginsborg, Universita degli Studi di Firenze “Between Hollywood and Moscow is an outstanding work that treats the effects of modernization and the development of a mass consumer society in Italy in an original and illuminating manner. It restores a sense of the importance of culture as an integral part of political strategizing and communicates the shifting meanings of culture over four decades of Italian history.”-Ruth Ben-Ghiat, New York University "A comprehensive account of the cultural policies of the Italian Communist Party. This is a very useful book containing much relevant information on a surprisingly under-researched topic." - Donald Sassoon (Modern Italy) “Between Hollywood and Moscow makes an original contribution to the study of the PCI and post-war Italy in general from a cultural point of view, and reveals the importance of specific cultural strategies and transformations in the political history of the PCI.”-John Dickie, University College, London