Italian Fascism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • R. J. B. Bosworth, Patrizia Dogliani

   Pages 1-9

3. Constructing Memory and Anti-Memory: the Monumental Representation of Fascism and its Denial in Republican Italy

   • Patrizia Dogliani

   Pages 11-30

4. Peasant Memory and the Italian Resistance, 1943–45

   • Roger Absalom

   Pages 31-44

5. Italians in Germany,1938–45: an Aspect of the Rome-Berlin Axis

   • Brunello Mantelli

   Pages 45-63

6. From Croce to Vico: Carlo Levi’s L’orologio and Italian Anti-Fascism, 1943–46

   • David Ward

   Pages 64-82

7. Liberation: Italian Cinema and the Fascist Past, 1945–50

   • Ruth Ben-Ghiat

   Pages 83-101

8. Film Memories of Fascism

   • R. J. B. Bosworth

   Pages 102-123

9. The Representation of Fascism and the Resistance in the Documentaries of Italian State Television

   • Guido Crainz

   Pages 124-140

10. The Fascist Mentality after Fascism

    • Mirco Dondi

    Pages 141-160

11. The Italian Empire and brava gente: Oral History and the Dodecanese Islands

    • Nicholas Doumanis

    Pages 161-177

12. Italian National Memory,National Identity and Fascism

    • Glenda Sluga

    Pages 178-194

13. Memory and Representations of Fascism: Female Autobiographical Narratives

    • Elda Guerra

    Pages 195-215

14. Days of Sodom: The Fascism—Perversion Equation in Films of the 1960s and 1970s

    • David Forgacs

    Pages 216-236

15. Back Matter

    Pages 237-245

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Bringing together scholars from the Italian and English-speaking worlds, Bosworth and Dogliani's edited book reviews the history of the memory and representation of Fascism after 1945. Ranging in their study from patriotic monuments to sado-masochistic films, the essays here collected ask how and why and when Mussolini's dictatorship mattered after the event, and so provide a fascinating study of the relationship between a traumatic past and the changing present and future.

• dictatorship
• empire
• fascism
• history

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

• University of Western Australia, Australia

  R. J. B. Bosworth

• University of Bologna, Italy

  Patrizia Dogliani

ROGER ABSALOM Honorary Research Fellow, Sheffield Hallam University RUTH BEN-GHIAT Assistant Professor of History Fordham University, New York GUIDO CRAINZ Associate Professor of History, University of Teramo MIRCO DONDI post-doctoral fellow in History, University of Bologna NICHOLAS DOUMANIS Lecturer in History, University of Newcastle (Australia) DAVID FORGACS Reader in Film Studies, Department of Media Arts, University of London ELDA GUERRA Deputy Chair, Centre for Research on Women's Studies, Bologna BRUNELLO MANTELLI Lecturer in History, University of Turin GLENDA SLUGA Lecturer in History and Director of the Centre for European Studies, University of Sydney DAVID WARD Associate Professor of Italian, Wellesley College

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