Memories and Silences Haunted by Fascism

Daniela Baratieri is an Australian Postdoctoral Fellow and lectures at the University of Western Australia. She graduated in social anthropology at Goldsmiths’ College London and completed her doctoral thesis in history at the European University Institute. Baratieri has made original contributions to debates on the transmission of knowledge and on identity formation with a special focus on popular culture, education and cinema.

• Contents: Theatres of Memory: Hegemony in the Structures Producing Culture – The Makers of Italian News in Motion – The Italian Press across Different Political Regimes – Audiences – Searching for Total Silence – Cinema: A Question of Total Silence? – Cinema And The Persistence of Desire – Newsreels: Comparing Fascist and Non-Fascist Imaginary – The Illustrated Press and the Verbosity of Silence – Hands on Memories and Silences – Hunting and the Appropriation of Africa – The Myths of Italians Good People – African Decolonisation in the Illustrated Press – Conflicting Memories – The Biography of Things – A Case Study: Bengasi Revisited.

«Daniela Baratieris Arbeit leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Erforschung des Umgangs mit dem Thema Kolonialismus in Italien sowie der Frage nach Brüchen und Kontinuitäten in der italienischen Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts.» (Marcel vom Lehn, H-Soz-u-Kult)