- Docente: Paolo Capuzzo
- Credits: 6
- SSD: M-STO/04
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics (cod. 9220)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, students will have gained a general knowledge of the history of contemporary Italy and its main historiographical interpretations. They will be able to communicate the knowledge acquired using the specific terminology peculiar to the subject and in line with its scientific principles, finding their bearings in the historiographical debate; they will have learned the methodologies for researching the social classes and the tendencies of the same; they will have gained an understanding of mass culture and the processes of consumption. They will understand the impact methodological choices have on the final results.
Course contents
10th November What’s material culture? A historical approach
11th November Italian food in the pre-industrial age: a geographical approach
12th November Commercialization and Italian material culture in the first half of the 20th century
17th November Students presentations and discussion. Students will present one of the following texts
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Fasce-Bini-Gaudenzi, Comprare per credere. La pubblicità in Italia dalla Belle Epoque a oggi, Carocci, 2016 – chapter 1, pp. 15-40
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Adam Arvidsson, Marketing Modernity. Italian advertising from fascism to postmodernity, Routledge, 2003 – chapter 3 on Fascism, pp. 22-43
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Emanuela Scarpellini, Food and Foodways in Italy from 1861 to the Present, Palgrave, 2016, chapter 2, pp. 27-51
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Capatti and Montanari, La cucina italiana. Storia di una cultura, Laterza, 2005, chapter 7
18th November Industrialisation of the Italian food and mass consumption
19th November Food in the Italian diaspora
24th November Student presentations. Students will choose one of the following texts
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Emanuela Scarpellini, Food and Foodways in Italy from 1861 to the Present, Palgrave, 2016, chapter 5, pp. 109-140
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H.R. Diner, Hungering for America. Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration, Harvard University Press, 2001, chapter 3, pp. 48-83
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S. Cinotto, The Italian American Table. Food, Family, and Community in New York City, University of Illinois Press, 2013, chapter 1, pp. 19-46
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C. Helstosky, Garlic and Oil. Politics and food in Italy, Berg, 2004, chapter 5, pp. 127-50
25th November Youth and consumption
26th November The city and the home: spaces of material cultures
1st December Student presentations – students will choose one of the following texts:
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Paolo Capuzzo, Gli spazi della nuova generazione, P. Capuzzo (ed.), Genere, generazione e consumi. L'Italia degli anni Sessanta, Carocci, pp. 217-247
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Bonomo, «Rivoluzione in famiglia»? Televisione e vita domestica nell’Italia del boom, «Contemporanea», XVIII, 2015, 1, pp. 3-31
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J. Foot, Cinema and the city. Milan and Luchino Visconti's Rocco and his Brothers (1960), in Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 2/1999, pp. 209-35
- E. Asquer, Storia intima dei ceti medi. Una capitale e una periferia nell’Italia del miracolo economico, Laterza, 2011, chapter 2, pp. 41-84
2nd December Mapping the Italian economic miracle: gender and consumption
3rd December Italian consumer society: political and commercial aspects
9th December Student presentations
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A. Arvidsson chapter 6 Housewife
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P. Capuzzo, I partiti politici di fronte alla società dei consumi, in “Mondo Contemporaneo”, 3/2014, pp. 129-53E. Asquer, La rivoluzione candida. Storia sociale della lavatrice in Italia (1945-1970), Carocci, 2007, chapter 4, pp. 103-41
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E. Scarpellini, Shopping American-Style: The Arrival of the Supermarket in Postwar Italy, “Enterprise & Society”, vol. 5 n. 4, dicembre 2004
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Ivan Paris, White goods in Italy during the golden age, in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 1/2013, 83-110
10th December Italian consumptions within the globalisation process
15th December Italian material cultures in the economic crisis
Readings/Bibliography
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Fasce-Bini-Gaudenzi, Comprare per credere. La pubblicità in Italia dalla Belle Epoque a oggi, Carocci, 2016
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Adam Arvidsson, Marketing Modernity. Italian advertising from fascism to postmodernity, Routledge, 2003
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Emanuela Scarpellini, Food and Foodways in Italy from 1861 to the Present, Palgrave, 2016,
- Capatti and Montanari, La cucina italiana. Storia di una cultura, Laterza, 2005
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H.R. Diner, Hungering for America. Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration, Harvard University Press, 2001
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S. Cinotto, The Italian American Table. Food, Family, and Community in New York City, University of Illinois Press, 2013
- C. Helstosky, Garlic and Oil. Politics and food in Italy, Berg, 2004
- P. Capuzzo (ed.), Genere, generazione e consumi. L'Italia degli anni Sessanta, Carocci
- E. Asquer, Storia intima dei ceti medi. Una capitale e una periferia nell’Italia del miracolo economico, Laterza, 2011
Teaching methods
The course is structured in lectues and seminar discussions. Students are expected to participate actively by reading in due time texts in the programme, writing papers and participating in class discussions.
Assessment methods
Attendant students will have to write a short paper (about 500 words) in which they summarise the main points of the chosen text. The paper has to be delivered at least one day before the scheduled discussion.
At the end of the course attendant students will have to write a paper (about 2000 words) on a subject which has to be decided along with the professor.
Not attending students will have to study the following texts:
Emanuela Scarpellini, Food and Foodways in Italy from 1861 to the Present, Palgrave, 2016
Adam Arvidsson, Marketing Modernity. Italian advertising from fascism to postmodernity, Routledge, 2003
Massimo Montanari, Italian Identity in the Kitchen, Columbia University Press, 2013
S. Cinotto, The Italian American Table. Food, Family, and Community in New York City, University of Illinois Press, 2013
They will than have to pass a written exam in which they are required to answer to 4 questions concerning the four volumes they have read. They will have 60 minutes to answer the questions.
It is recommended that not-attending students get in touch with the professor before the exam.
Teaching tools
During frontal lessons the teacher will use power point presentations containing text and visual sources.
Office hours
See the website of Paolo Capuzzo