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Popular Cultures/Cultures of the Popular: The Italian Context
From the 1950 to the present critical judgements about popular culture remained extremely diverse and often contraddictory in the Italian sphere; theorists both celebrated the emergence and preservation of popular cultural forms and lamented the rise of new market-driven cultural commodities. Perhaps because of such diversity, there are areas in which a thorough assessment of the relationships within and between these positions remains to be made. Recent work in cultural studies has also begun to question the degree to which 'high' and 'low' literary forms remained separate during this period. Nevertheless, the interaction between and within these different cultural modes still requires further elaboration. The questions this session would like to address are the following:
Have the contributions of mass literacy and literary commodification been adequately theorized in terms of their contribution to either popular cultural forms or the changing attitudes towards such cultural formations?
Are the conventional explanations of how the relations between popular culture and 'high' literary culture changed and developed during this period still adequate?
What sort of interaction occurred between the apparently contradictory attitudes towards popular culture and/or literary culture?
How much influence did the theorizing of popular culture have upon popular cultural formations?
Do attempts to theorize the popular from this period offer any future directions for literary studies?
Rita Gagliano
Temple University
215-563-4995
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