Massimiliano Panarari, L'egemonia sottoculturale: L'Italia da Gramsci al gossip, Torino: Einaudi, 2010
This book helps to understand what Italy is nowadays. After the end of the so-called cultural hegemony of the Left, Italians are now confronted with a sub-cultural hegemony where gossip, vulgarity, voyeurism, and "sex-politics" prevail. The author analyzes some well known [maybe only in italy!] people or "personage" such as Alfonso Signorini, Antonio Ricci, Maria De Filippi, Simona Ventura and Bruno Vespa, and their TV hit shows such as "Drive In", "Le Iene" [Hyenas], "Amici" [Friends], "Il Grande Fratello" [Big Brother], "L'isola dei famosi" [Celebrity Survivor], "Porta a porta" [Door to Door]. Quoting -among dozen of others- Michel Foucault, Jean-Francois Lyothard, Zigmunt Bauman, Guy Debord, Jean Braudillard, and of course Antonio Gramsci, this book is a deep reflection by a true intellectual, a category at this point despised in Italy.
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