The article reviews a set of films that gave the lie to leftist culture's celebration of the selfless Italian worker. The research tries to look beyond the well-known Marxist discourses of Stakanovite sacrifice to see the ways in which many directors, leftists included, constructed alternative characters defined by supposed national vices like laziness, laxity and incompetence.
Against Working-Class Idols: Thieves, Vitelloni, Hunks and the Dolce Vita in 1950s Italian Cinema / Cantore, Francesca; Minuz, Andrea. - (2021), pp. 193-206.
Against Working-Class Idols: Thieves, Vitelloni, Hunks and the Dolce Vita in 1950s Italian Cinema
Francesca Cantore;Andrea Minuz
2021
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The article reviews a set of films that gave the lie to leftist culture's celebration of the selfless Italian worker. The research tries to look beyond the well-known Marxist discourses of Stakanovite sacrifice to see the ways in which many directors, leftists included, constructed alternative characters defined by supposed national vices like laziness, laxity and incompetence.File allegati a questo prodotto
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