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L’Ultima Cena. Questioni antiquarie tra Rinascimento e Riforma Italian Culture Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Marta Vittorini
Published in Italian Culture (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Manteo (1884-1947): The Paladins of France in America Italian Culture Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Maria Galli Stampino
Published in Italian Culture (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Boccaccio’s Florence: Politics and People in His Life and Work Italian Culture Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Massimo Scalabrini
Published in Italian Culture (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Italy and the Ecological Imagination: Ecocritical Theories and Practices Italian Culture Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Nicoletta Pireddu
Published in Italian Culture (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Maps and Memory in Takoua Ben Mohamed’s La rivoluzione dei gelsomini Italian Culture Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Silvia Caserta
Within the growing field of transnational comics culture, marked by the great success of works such as Art Spiegelman’s Maus and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, Italian comics have not received suffi...
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From Intersectionality to Interstitiality: Pathways in Italian Race, Migration, and Diaspora Studies Italian Culture Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Vetri Nathan
In recent years, the study of Italy’s contemporary migrant “crisis” has broadened into explorations of national biopolitics in transhistorical and transnational contexts. This article suggests some...
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Early Modern Venetian Sex Work and the Business of Gambling Italian Culture Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Nicole Wagner
By the sixteenth century, the ever-growing popularity of casini and ridotti in cities such as Venice resulted in the widespread pursuit of women’s gambling. This article argues that female card pla...
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On “Savage Thought”: Gabriele D’Annunzio, Guido Boggiani, and Italy’s Transatlantic Mediterranean Empire Italian Culture Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Valerie McGuire
Critics have long debated the degree to which Gabriele D’Annunzio should be viewed as a fascist and an imperialist, a virtual daguerreotype for Mussolini. But D’Annunzio’s evolving investment in an...
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Non è un pranzo di gala. Indagine sulla letteratura working class Italian Culture Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Giulio Savelli
Published in Italian Culture (Vol. 41, No. 2, 2023)
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Posterity. Inventing Tradition from Petrarch to Gramsci Italian Culture Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Vincenzo Maria Di Mino
Published in Italian Culture (Vol. 41, No. 2, 2023)
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Neorealist Architecture: Aesthetics of Dwelling in Postwar Italy Italian Culture Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Letizia Modena
Published in Italian Culture (Vol. 41, No. 2, 2023)
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Torquato Tasso e il desiderio di unità. La Gerusalemme liberata e una nuova teoria dell’epica Italian Culture Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Luca Zipoli
Published in Italian Culture (Vol. 41, No. 2, 2023)
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Italian Film in the Present Tense Italian Culture Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Joseph Francese
Published in Italian Culture (Vol. 41, No. 2, 2023)
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Dante, Artist of Gesture Italian Culture Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Francesco Ciabattoni
Published in Italian Culture (Vol. 41, No. 2, 2023)
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Food Culture and Literary Imagination in Early Modern Italy. The Renaissance of Taste Italian Culture Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Patrizia Bettella
Published in Italian Culture (Vol. 41, No. 2, 2023)
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The Poetic Geography of Italy: Coastal Geometaphors Italian Culture Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Ilaria Serra
This article pushes at the interdisciplinary boundaries of literary ecocriticism to suggest a new rhetorical figure: the “geometaphor.” The geometaphor is a metaphor that is not only geographically marked, but also rooted in a specific territory. In short, it is a poetic metaphor with a specific address. This article defines this concept through references spanning from the medieval Francis of Assisi
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Laura Pariani’s Novels of Migration: From Transnational Memory to Cosmopolitan Ethics Italian Culture Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Joanne Lee
This article focuses on two novels by Laura Pariani: Quando Dio ballava il tango (2002) and Il piatto dell’angelo (2013), both of which recount tales of travel and migration between Italy and South America across a broad historical timeframe. These novels represent a challenge to narrow constructions of Italy as a monocultural and monolingual nation, foregrounding cultural and linguistic hybridity
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Matilde Serao: International Profile, Reception and Networks Italian Culture Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Cosetta Seno
Published in Italian Culture (Vol. 41, No. 1, 2023)
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Cesare Pavese, Homo Mediterraneus? Italian Culture Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Federica Di Blasio
This article reads the work of Cesare Pavese in light of the critical challenges of transnational Italian studies and analyzes Pavese’s aesthetics of rootedness, representations of migration, and practices of translation as sites of tension between local and global geographic scales. Accepting Carlo Bernari’s provocative suggestion that we consider Pavese a “Southern” writer, the article traces how
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Etiology of a First Book: A Defense of Comparative Italian Studies Italian Culture Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Rebecca Falkoff
Published in Italian Culture (Vol. 41, No. 1, 2023)
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“Il segno di Menelik”: Enrico Corradini, the Protocolos, and the Re-Staging of Adwa in São Paulo Italian Culture Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Giulia Riccò
This essay brings to light how the Italian loss at Adwa of 1896 inspires Enrico Corradini to reimagine the dream of an imperial Italy in his novel La patria lontana (1910). By turning to a little-known episode in the history of Italo-Brazilian relations that forms part of the backdrop for La patria lontana, this essay reveals that Brazil functions as a stand-in for Ethiopia in Corradini’s imaginary
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Da Venezia al Cairo. Il viaggio di Zaccaria Pagani nel primo cinquecento Italian Culture Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Valerio Cappozzo
Published in Italian Culture (Vol. 41, No. 1, 2023)
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Commedia e civiltà. Dinamiche anticonflittuali nella letteratura italiana del Cinquecento Italian Culture Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Maria Galli Stampino
Published in Italian Culture (Vol. 41, No. 1, 2023)
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The City of Poetry: Imagining the Civic Role of the Poet in Fourteenth-Century Italy Italian Culture Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Vincent Leung
Published in Italian Culture (Vol. 41, No. 1, 2023)
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Citizens without a City. Destruction and Despair after the L’Aquila Earthquake Italian Culture Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Anna Di Lellio
Published in Italian Culture (Vol. 41, No. 1, 2023)
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Melita, domi adsum: Sessismo e eteronormatività nelle narrative enogastronomiche italiane Italian Culture Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Fabio Indìo Massimo Poppi
Questo contributo analizza le narrative enogastronomiche prodotte da cinquantuno partecipanti italiani che, in diversi modi, pongono il cibo ed il bere al centro della propria vita professionale e sociale. Considerando il valore culturale e simbolico dell’enogastronomia ed il conservatorismo della tradizione culinaria italiana, l’analisi mette in evidenza i contenuti sessisti e eteronormativi che dominano
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Lettrici italiane tra arte e letteratura. Dall’Ottocento al modernismo Italian Culture Pub Date : 2022-09-12 Gabriella Romani
Published in Italian Culture (Vol. 40, No. 2, 2022)
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Trauma and Motherhood in Contemporary Literature and Culture Italian Culture Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Serena Todesco
Published in Italian Culture (Vol. 40, No. 2, 2022)
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Call Center Blues: Italian Cinema and the New Economy Italian Culture Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Sergio Ferrarese
Grounded in theories of workerism (operaismo) and post-workerism (autonomia and post-autonomia), this paper examines how Federico Rizzo’s Fuga dal call center and, more extensively, Paolo Virzì’s Tutta la vita davanti, both films from 2008, register the shift from material to immaterial labor in the twenty-first century. In both films, the call center replaces the factory as the space of labor; it
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Looking Sideways to Italy in Contemporary World Literature Italian Culture Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Emma Bond
This article sketches a history of how the concept of Italy has travelled worldwide to become a mobile cultural symbol in order to show how, as a signifier, “Italy” has also become increasingly detached from any national parameters of territory. It employs a lateral method of “looking sideways” at literary representations of Italy from “outside” the national canon to show how they can put pressure
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For a Jewish Italian Literary History: from Italo Svevo to Igiaba Scego Italian Culture Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski
This article argues that recognizing Jewishness as a crucial part of modern Italian literary history offers one path for discussing the current and historical diversity of Italian culture. The first section discusses key twentieth-century Italian authors — Giorgio Bassani, Natalia Ginzburg, Primo Levi, Elsa Morante, and Italo Svevo — not to assess how Jewish they are, but to illuminate the Jewishness
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The Pactional Model of Salvation and Its Undoing in St. Catherine of Siena Italian Culture Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Andrea Righi
A symbolic economy based on a system of merits and demerits that determines the salvation or damnation of the believer is at the root of Western theology. Even in its most sophisticated formulations, this form of moral bookkeeping (or pactional structure) produces paradoxes that stem from the unresolved relation between divine transcendence and earthly immanence. Contextualizing her work in relation
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Flashback, Eclipse. The Political Imaginary of Italian Art in the 1960s. By ROMY GOLAN. Pp. 311. New York: Zone Books, 2021 Italian Culture Pub Date : 2022-09-02 Karen Pinkus
Published in Italian Culture (Vol. 40, No. 2, 2022)
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The Unpopular Realism of Vincenzo Padula: Il Bruzio and Mariuzza Sbriffiti. By JOSEPH FRANCESE. Pp. X + 196. Vancouver: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2022 Italian Culture Pub Date : 2022-08-26 Benedetto Fontana
Published in Italian Culture (Vol. 40, No. 2, 2022)
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Italian Ecocinema Beyond the Human Italian Culture Pub Date : 2022-08-26 Derek Alexander Ginoris
Published in Italian Culture (Vol. 40, No. 2, 2022)
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“A Thickening of the Network”: Joseph A. Buttigieg and “Gramsci's Method” Italian Culture Pub Date : 2022-07-08 Damiano Benvegnù, Mimmo Cangiano, Charles L. Leavitt IV
Published in Italian Culture (Vol. 40, No. 1, 2022)
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Of Horses and Water: On the Power of the Fragment Italian Culture Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Kate Crehan
Joseph Buttigieg’s seminal 1990 article “Gramsci’s Method” argues that the fragmentary nature of the Prison Notebooks cannot be explained simply by the constraints under which they were written. Rather, the notebooks’ fragmentariness is at the heart of an innovative approach to the understanding of history and the mapping of possibilities for change. Characteristic of Gramsci’s innovative approach
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Gramsci on Bureaucracy Italian Culture Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Francesca Antonini
This essay reconstructs Antonio Gramsci’s account of bureaucracy as it unfolds in his magnum opus, the Prison Notebooks. By adopting the “philological” way of reading this work developed in recent decades by Gramsci scholars and significantly anticipated by Joseph Buttigieg’s “Gramsci’s Method” (1990), I show how the concept of bureaucracy is closely connected to some key elements in Gramsci’s political
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Joseph Buttigieg: A Portrait of the Critic in Different Perspective Italian Culture Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Mauro Pala
Joseph Buttigieg’s A Portrait of the Artist in Different Perspective aims at providing a critical reconsideration of Joyce’s work. Focusing on A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, it contributes to a radical revision of the central tenets of modernism as first established by T.S. Eliot’s conservative reading in the 1920s and reiterated by the New Critics in the 1950s. Buttigieg’s critical effort
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Buttigieg’s Method Italian Culture Pub Date : 2022-06-01 David Forgacs
Joseph Buttigieg’s introduction to his uncompleted edition of the Prison Notebooks is one of the best things ever written about Gramsci’s prison writings. The last section reproduces, with minimal changes, Buttigieg’s 1990 article “Gramsci’s Method,” and it has the same title. That title, however, is misleading, since what Buttigieg reconstructs is not so much Gramsci’s method of writing the notebooks
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Feminism, Violence and Representation in Modern Italy. “We Are Witnesses, not Victims” Italian Culture Pub Date : 2022-03-22 Ombretta Frau
Published in Italian Culture (Vol. 40, No. 1, 2022)
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In the Maelstrom of History. A Conversation with Miriam Italian Culture Pub Date : 2022-03-10 Manuela Di Franco
Published in Italian Culture (Vol. 40, No. 1, 2022)
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Italo Calvino’s Animals: Anthropocene Stories Italian Culture Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Derek Alexander Ginoris
Published in Italian Culture (Vol. 40, No. 1, 2022)
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La carta veloce: figure, temi e politiche del giornalismo italiano dell’Ottocento Italian Culture Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Joseph Francese
Published in Italian Culture (Vol. 40, No. 1, 2022)
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Approaches to Teaching Dante’s Divine Comedy Italian Culture Pub Date : 2022-02-22 C. A. Adoyo
Published in Italian Culture (Vol. 40, No. 1, 2022)
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A Note on the New Cover Italian Culture Pub Date : 2022-02-18 Lorenzo Fabbri, Ramsey McGlazer
(2021). A Note on the New Cover. Italian Culture: Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 113-114.
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Imag(in)Ing Blackness in Italy: Redactions, Presence, and Media in Antonio Dikele Distefano’s Work Italian Culture Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Michela Ardizzoni
This article examines the transmedia work of writer and media maker Antonio Dikele Distefano through an analysis of the politics and aesthetics of Blackness and its (in)visibilities in Italy. Specifically this paper considers how this artist inhabits and disrupts existing narratives of belonging and negotiates the racialized terms of the Italian imaginary.
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Homo Oeconomicus and the Limits of Storytelling: Italian Apocalyptic Fiction of the Long Downturn Italian Culture Pub Date : 2021-12-09 Nicholas Albanese
This paper focuses on three contemporary Italian novels that operate within the apocalyptic paradigm and voice a sense of collapsing reality that characterized Italy in the wake of the global financial crisis. Ruggero Cappuccio's Fuoco su Napoli (2010), Gianni Miraglia's Muori Milano muori! (2011), and Francesca Genti's La febbre (2011) represent worlds in which the disruption of daily life exposes
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From Piazze to Courts: Actresses’ Role in the Refashioning of Commedia dell’Arte Italian Culture Pub Date : 2021-12-09 Nicla Riverso
My article provides a better understanding of commedia dell’arte’s transformation from an indecorous form of popular entertainment, performed in public spaces (piazze) and accused of teaching lust and corruption, into a legitimate and respected art form, performed in aristocratic and royal court theatres before refined and educated audiences. I show how relevant performances by such actresses as Barbara
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Local Recipes in the National Kitchen: The Life and Legacies of Ada Boni’s Il talismano della felicità Italian Culture Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Harry Eli Kashdan
Ada Boni’s 1925 Il talismano della felicità has for almost 100 years been the Italian domestic manual par excellence. Whether actively used or simply preserved as a family keepsake, Boni’s cookbook has been a fixture in generations of Italian kitchens. This article argues that Il talismano is a major work of Italian national literature. Boni rejects the model established by Pellegrino Artusi’s La scienza
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Calvino, Cerrone, and the Catacoustic: An “Echo-logical” Reading1 Italian Culture Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Robert Rushing
Catacoustics (an ancient term for the science of reflected sound, briefly championed by Lacoue-Labarthe) in fact tells us that the echo is never a partial and degraded repetition: while it is true that an echo repeats only a portion of the original signal, it does so in a way that also conveys a huge quantity of additional information that was not in the original signal—information that effectively
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“Cittadinanza,” “sudditanza” e “nazionalità” in contesto imperiale: Riflessioni sul caso italiano tra guerra e dopoguerra, 1914–1925 Italian Culture Pub Date : 2021-11-30 Sabina Donati
L’articolo esamina le declinazioni di cittadinanza, sudditanza e nazionalità che presero forma nel contesto dell’espansionismo coloniale italiano durante gli anni della Grande Guerra e del primo periodo postbellico. Viaggiando attraverso il territorio dell’impero formale italiano in Libia e nella concessione dell’impero informale a Tientsin in Cina, il saggio unisce – per la prima volta in un’unica
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Idee, forme e racconto della città nella narrativa italiana Italian Culture Pub Date : 2021-11-11 Letizia Modena
(2021). Idee, forme e racconto della città nella narrativa italiana. Italian Culture: Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 245-247.
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Giovani e abuso sessuale nella letteratura Italiana (1902–2018) Italian Culture Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Adalgisa Giorgio
(2021). Giovani e abuso sessuale nella letteratura Italiana (1902–2018) Italian Culture: Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 242-245.
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T.S. Eliot, Eugenio Montale e la modernità dantesca Italian Culture Pub Date : 2021-10-27 Laura Barile
(2021). T.S. Eliot, Eugenio Montale e la modernità dantesca. Italian Culture: Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 240-242.
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Italian Diaspora Studies. Edited by Margherita Ganeri Italian Culture Pub Date : 2021-10-25 Joseph Francese
(2021). Italian Diaspora Studies. Edited by Margherita Ganeri. Italian Culture: Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 247-249.
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Convergence Culture and Transmedia Storytelling in Contemporary Italy Italian Culture Pub Date : 2021-08-25
(2021). Convergence Culture and Transmedia Storytelling in Contemporary Italy. Italian Culture: Vol. 39, After Convergence, pp. 1-3.
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Le forme transmediali del noir all'italiana tra impegno, denuncia e mercato Italian Culture Pub Date : 2021-08-25
Abstract Tra le varie forme di contaminazione e relazione tra i media, anche in Italia si sta sperimentando sempre più frequentemente quella del transmedia storytelling, in particolare all’interno dell’ampia galassia del noir. Narrazioni transmediali che, come Romanzo criminale, Gomorra, Suburra, segnano il passaggio a una nuova stagione della serialità televisiva italiana e l’ingresso delle produzioni
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The Ultimate Ferrante Experience: Convergence Culture, Literary Tourism, and the Quest for Authenticity Italian Culture Pub Date : 2021-08-25
“Ferrante Fever,” a term used to describe the contagious wave of enthusiasm for the Neapolitan Quartet by Elena Ferrante, has led to the creation of several commercial extensions (a play, a television series, and travel guides) and inspired many readers to travel to Naples. In this article, I analyze the Ferrante phenomenon in the context of what Henry Jenkins calls “Convergence Culture” and cultural
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“Not for Everyone”: Transformations of Italian Calcio in the Digital Age Italian Culture Pub Date : 2021-08-25
The age of new media has changed soccer and soccer fans. In the past, clubs primarily focused on promoting the value of their brands through merchandise and the image of top players, while fans were mainly spectators. Digital transformations have allowed clubs to encourage fans’ participation and engagement in new ways. In Italy, the Chinese-owned Inter Milan has become a leader in digital innovation