Italian Fascism

ROGER ABSALOM Honorary Research Fellow, Sheffield Hallam UniversityRUTH BEN-GHIAT Assistant Professor of History Fordham University, New YorkGUIDO CRAINZ Associate Professor of History, University of TeramoMIRCO DONDI post-doctoral fellow in History, University of BolognaNICHOLAS DOUMANIS Lecturer in History, University of Newcastle (Australia)DAVID FORGACS Reader in Film Studies, Department of Media Arts, University of LondonELDA GUERRA Deputy Chair, Centre for Research on Women's Studies, BolognaBRUNELLO MANTELLI Lecturer in History, University of Turin GLENDA SLUGA Lecturer in History and Director of the Centre for European Studies, University of SydneyDAVID WARD Associate Professor of Italian, Wellesley College

• Preface Introduction; R.J.B.Bosworth and P.Dogliani Constructing Memory and Anti-memory: the Monumental Representation of Fascism and its Denial in Republican Italy; P.Dogliani Peasant Memory and the Italian Resistance 1943-45; R.Absalom Italians in Germany 1938-1945: An Aspect of the Rome-Berlin Axis; B.Mantelli From Croce to Vico: Carlo Levi's L'Orologio and Italian Anti-Fascism, 1943-46; D.Ward Liberation: Italian Cinema and the Fascist Past, 1945-50; R.Ben-Ghiat Film Memories of Fascism; R.J.B.Bosworth The Representation of Fascism and the Resistance in the Documentaries of Italian State Television; G.Crainz The Fascist Mentality after Fascism; M.Dondi The Italian Empire and brava gente : Oral History and the Dodecanese Islands; N.Doumanis Italian National Memory, National Identity and Fascism; G.Sluga Memory and Representation of Fascism: Female Autobiographical Narratives; E.Guerra Days of Sodom: the Fascism Perversion in Films of the 1960s and 1970s; D.Forgacs Index

The Myth of the bravo italiano dies hard, but Bosworth, Dogliani and their excellent collaborators provide a stake and silver bullet. Journal of Modern Italian Studies