Archiv für September 2014

Foreigners in Naples during the nineteenth century: attractions, sociability and culture

Annunziata Berrino
At the beginning of the nineteenth century Naples consolidated its reputation as a center of culture, developed during the eighteenth century, with new forms of attractions, spread by the romantic culture. In the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, during the decades of the Bourbon restoration, the forms of sociability, the attractions and the cultural opportunities for foreign guests – which during the eighteenth century were primarily organized in private circles or amongst the aristocrats – are no longer valid. The new travellers have different expectations and request holidays which guarantee services and freedom of movement. However Naples is governed by a reactionary police establishment. From the 1840’s foreigners began leaving the capital and heading around the Gulf. In Sorrento, the islands of Capri and Ischia they found a more liberal ambient combined with new attractions, sociability and culture.

The Holocaust Memory and the Nazi Concentration Camps Experiences in Liliana Cavani’s TV Documentaries (1961-1965)

Damiano Garofalo
Liliana Cavani is well-known as the director of the controversial Holocaust fi lm The Night Porter (1974), which inspires the birth of the new cinematographical genre of Nazisexploitation. In order to trace Cavani’s interest on the Holocaust theme we have to come back to the early 60’s, when the young director starts working for the national broadcasting television RAI. In the fi ve years between 1961 and 1965, in fact, Lilian Cavani directs three documentary fi lms: a four-episodes serie called History of the Third Reich (1961-1962); a documentary about the divided World War II memories between two generations in post-war Europe, The Day of the Peace (1965); fi nally, The Woman in the Resistance (1965), a fi lm about the role of Italian women during the Partisan struggle, where she also interviews several Jewish Italian women who were deported between 1943 and 1945. Each one of these productions has different and specifi c modalities of dealing with the Holocaust memory. But the relevance of these fi lms lays in the fact that they represent the fi rst attempt of the Italian television to deal with the memory of the Holocaust, and this happens through the screening of both audiovisual and oral sources. Until then, no previous visual expressions have described the Italian responsability in the deportation of thousands of Italian Jews. The paper is structured by using several kind of sources: audiovisual archives, production and distribution strategies, an original interview to Liliana Cavani about her early carreer.

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Marco Fincardi, Simonetta Soldani

From health resorts to salons d’Europe. Cultural sociability and elite tourism in Liguria in the second half of the 19th century

Andrea ZaniniThis article examines the transformations of tourist places due to the changes occurred in elite tourism during the second half of the 19th century. It focuses on Liguria, the well-known Italian Riviera, which, during the 19th century, eme…

Towards a history of e-ducation? Exploring the possibilities of digital humanities for the history of education

Volume 50, Issue 6, December 2014, pages 861-870<br/>10.1080/00309230.2014.955511<br/>Sarah Van Ruyskensvelde

Women’s Agency and the Agenda-Setting of Danish Family Policy in the 1950s and 1960s

Volume 23, Issue 1, March 2015, pages 52-68<br/>10.1080/08038740.2014.938117<br/>Mai Hostrup Brunse

Ambitious Goals, Deficient Output: Tax and Fiscal Policies of the Conservative–Liberal Government, 2009–13

Volume 23, Issue 4, December 2014, pages 304-321<br/>10.1080/09644008.2014.953487<br/>Thomas Rixen

A Grand Coalition for the Euro: The Second Merkel Cabinet, the Euro Crisis and the Elections of 2013

Volume 23, Issue 4, December 2014, pages 322-336<br/>10.1080/09644008.2014.953069<br/>Hubert Zimmermann

The New Electoral Law – or: Good Things Don’t Always Come to Those Who Wait

Volume 23, Issue 4, December 2014, pages 268-283<br/>10.1080/09644008.2014.953066<br/>Joachim Behnke

Le génocide des Arméniens et l’opinion publique française durant la Première Guerre Mondiale

European Review of History: Revue européenne d’histoire, Ahead of Print.
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