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The Culture of Reconstruction

European Literature, Thought and Film, 1945–50

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Nicholas Hewitt

    1. University of Nottingham, UK

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Part of the book series: Warwick Studies in the European Humanities (WSEH)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Nicholas Hewitt
    Pages 1-11

  3. The Communist Party and the Politics of Cultural Change in Postwar Italy, 1945–50

    • Stephen Gundle
    Pages 12-36

  4. Writing and the Real World: Italian Narrative in the Period of Reconstruction

    • Michael Caesar
    Pages 37-50

  5. The Making and Unmaking of Neorealism in Postwar Italy

    • David Forgacs
    Pages 51-66

  6. The Place of Neorealism in Italian Cinema from 1945 to 1954

    • Christopher Wagstaff
    Pages 67-87

  7. Tradition and Social Change in the French and Italian Cinemas of the Reconstruction

    • Pierre Sorlin
    Pages 88-102

  8. Humanism and National Unity: the Ideological Reconstruction of France

    • Michael Kelly
    Pages 103-119

  9. Les Lettres Françaises and the Failure of the French Postwar ‘Renaissance’

    • Nicholas Hewitt
    Pages 120-139

  10. The Reconstruction of Culture: Peuple et Culture and the Popular Education Movement

    • Brian Rigby
    Pages 140-152

  11. The Chameleon Rearguard of Cultural Tradition: the Case of Jacques Laurent

    • Colin Nettelbeck
    Pages 153-171

  12. German Literature in 1945: Liberation for a New Beginning?

    • Helmut Peitsch
    Pages 172-190

  13. Continuity or Change? Aspects of West German Writing after 1945

    • Keith Bullivant
    Pages 191-207

  14. West German Theatre in the Period of Reconstruction

    • Ursula Fries
    Pages 208-221

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 222-240
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