David Forgacs
Biographic Data
| ID | 636757 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Forgacs |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Forgacs |
| SIGNATURE | FORGACS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2817-2034 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Bellocchio’s Histories, Personal and Public
In The Traitor (2019) and Exterior Night (2022), Marco Bellocchio revisits traumatic and violent episodes in Italy’s recent past. The first is a feature film about the round-up of Sicilian mafia members in the 1980s and their retaliatory attack on the Italian state. The second is a six-part television series about the abduction and murder in 1978 of politician Aldo Moro as lived by his family, political colleagues and the terrorists who captured …
Buttigieg’s Method
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 as his own process, as editor, of reading the…
Italian massacres in occupied Ethiopia
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Gramsci undisabled
Most books by or about Antonio Gramsci reproduce on their covers the same studio photograph dating from the early 1920s. It is a head and shoulders portrait showing Gramsci with longish hair, dark coat buttoned at the neck, unsmiling and looking into the camera through wire-rimmed glasses. This was also the image of him most commonly displayed in Communist Party branches all over Italy from the late 1940s to 1991. Yet if we compare it with other …
Introduction: Looking at margins
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Italy's Margins: Social Exclusion and Nation Formation since 1861
Italy's Margins explores how certain places and social groups in Italy have been defined as marginal or peripheral since unification. This marginalization involves not only concrete policies but also ways of perceiving people and places as outside society's centre. The author looks closely at how photography and writing have supported political and social exclusion and, conversely, how they have been enlisted to challenge it. Five cases are exami…
Introduction: Disability rights and wrongs in Italy
This is the first issue of Modern Italy to focus on disability. We want to thank the general editors of the journal, Philip Cooke and John Foot, for having welcomed our proposal for it. The original nucleus was the panel ‘Disabilities' at the conference ‘Language, Space and Otherness in Italy since 1860’, which David Forgacs organised at the British School at Rome on 24-25 June 2010. The decision to include a panel on that topic was influenced, i…
Looking for Italy's public sphere
Starting out from Jürgen Habermas's definition of the public sphere, and from the criticisms subsequently made of it by various scholars, this article considers whether the concept may be appropriately applied to Italy in the modern era. Is it correct to limit the public sphere to its ‘classic’ liberal form or to understand it in a normative sense rather than a more neutral, descriptive one? Can one, for example, speak of a fascist public sphere?…
I Watussi
The article reflects on the ‘absent connection’ between the fictional Watussi of the Italian hit song of 1963 and the real Tutsi, many of whom had fled Rwanda at that time to escape violence from the ascendant Hutu majority in the last years of Belgian rule. It considers the song's long afterlife and the stubborn persistence, decades later, of comic stereotypes of ‘Africans’ in Italian popular culture despite the growing number of African migrant…
Preparing and Recording Audio Commentaries
I have now recorded full-length commentaries for four ‘classic’ Italian films: Ossessione (Luchino Visconti, 1943), Il Gattopardo (Luchino Visconti, 1963), Il deserto rosso (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964), and Il conformista (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970). Although these credentials hardly make me an expert on the subject, I have learned some lessons about audio commentaries that I think are worth sharing. First lesson: do not risk going into a studi…
Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War
Examines the impact of mass culture and the making of modern Italy
Italian Film Studies: Personal Histories Doing Film History Today
Italian Film Studies: Personal Histories Doing Film History Today
The words of the migrant: Tales of contemporary Italy
L'articolo fornisce un quadro breve del progetto di ricerca ‘Linguaggio/lingua, spazio e potere in Italia sin dal 1800’ che sto conducendo alla British School at Rome dal 2006 al 2009, e fornisce esempi tratti da uno dei più completi case studies . Nell'insieme, con questi case studies si esaminano gli intrecci del linguaggio/lingua, dello spazio e del potere in un certo numero di istituzioni e agenzie, inclusi l'esercito, i tribunali e gli osped…
Italians in Algiers
Why did Saadi Yacef decide to go to Italy in 1964 to find a director to make a film based on his memoirs of the Battle of Algiers? How far was the resulting film shaped by its Algerian producer and how far by the Italians who worked on it – director Gillo Pontecorvo and screenwriter Franco Solinas, but also cinematographer Marcello Gatti, editor Mario Morra and composer Ennio Morricone? How far did it differ on the one hand from Yacef's original …
Building the Body of the Nation: Lombroso's L'antisemitismo and Fin-de-Siècle Italy
Scenarios for the digital age: Convergence, personalization, exclusion
The new media system that has emerged worldwide since the early 1990s is characterized by increasing use of digital technologies in every area and convergence between once distinct media. In Italy there have been a number of national variations on this global pattern: relative weakness of state regulation, a move away from the dominance of the system by ‘generalist’ television, a high rate of cellular phone use and a slower than average growth of…
European Memories of the Second World War
Disney animation and the business of childhood
Italian Culture in the Industrial Era, 1880-1980: Cultural Industries, Politics and the Public
This book aims to be both a cultural history of 20-th century Italy and a case study of cultural modernisation. Focusing on the development of the modern cultural industries such as publishing, cinema and broadcasting, it looks at their impact upon a society which remained predominantly agrarian until around 1950. Starting with an overview of Italy since 1990, the book traces the effects of industrialization and commercialization on popular cultu…
Moving in Measure: Essays in honour of Brian Moloney
Moving in Measure: Essays in honour of Brian Moloney
(1990). Moving in Measure: Essays in honour of Brian Moloney. Italian Studies: Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 118-157
Gramsci and Marxism in Britain
Outside Italy, nowhere more than in Britain have Gramsci’s writings exercised so prolonged, deep or diversified an influence. Some of this has been channelled through the academic disciplines of history, political science and cultural studies, but much of it has worked directly upon the theory and practice of
Gramsci and Culture
Signs Taken for Wonders: Essays in the Sociology of Literary Forms
This work of literary analysis examines the great works of modern literature, from Shakespeare's tragedies to Joyce's Ulysses as historical signs - literary systems that are tokens of wider cultural and political realities. Covering such diverse genres as baroque tragedy, horror, detective fiction and classical realism, the book presents an analysis of the relations between high and mass culture
Disney animation and the business of childhood
Gramsci and Marxism in Britain
Outside Italy, nowhere more than in Britain have Gramsci’s writings exercised so prolonged, deep or diversified an influence. Some of this has been channelled through the academic disciplines of history, political science and cultural studies, but much of it has worked directly upon the theory and practice of
Scenarios for the digital age: Convergence, personalization, exclusion
The new media system that has emerged worldwide since the early 1990s is characterized by increasing use of digital technologies in every area and convergence between once distinct media. In Italy there have been a number of national variations on this global pattern: relative weakness of state regulation, a move away from the dominance of the system by ‘generalist’ television, a high rate of cellular phone use and a slower than average growth of…
Signs Taken for Wonders: Essays in the Sociology of Literary Forms
Italians in Algiers
Why did Saadi Yacef decide to go to Italy in 1964 to find a director to make a film based on his memoirs of the Battle of Algiers? How far was the resulting film shaped by its Algerian producer and how far by the Italians who worked on it – director Gillo Pontecorvo and screenwriter Franco Solinas, but also cinematographer Marcello Gatti, editor Mario Morra and composer Ennio Morricone? How far did it differ on the one hand from Yacef's original …
Signs Taken for Wonders: Essays in the Sociology of Literary Forms
This work of literary analysis examines the great works of modern literature, from Shakespeare's tragedies to Joyce's Ulysses as historical signs - literary systems that are tokens of wider cultural and political realities. Covering such diverse genres as baroque tragedy, horror, detective fiction and classical realism, the book presents an analysis of the relations between high and mass culture
Art and Society
Della Volpe’s Aesthetics
Della Volpe’s Critique of Taste (1960) represented the first attempt in Italy at what its author describes as ‘a systematic exposition of a historical-materialist aesthetic’. Previous Italian Marxist aesthetics had been sketchy and, apart from a very few cases, compromised with the idealist aesthetics of Croce or Gentile
Signs Taken for Wonders: Essays in the Sociology of Literary Forms
Walter Benjamin or Towards a Revolutionary Criticism
Literary Theory: An Introduction
Buku ini merupakan salah satu buku yang membicarakan teori sastra. Teori-teori yang dibicarakan dalam buku ini meliputi teori hermeneutika, resepsi, strukturalisme, semiotik, post-strukturalisme, hingga psikoanalisis dalam karya sastra
Reading Relations. Structures of Literary Production. A Dialectical Text/Book
Gramsci and Culture
Signs Taken for Wonders: Essays in the Sociology of Literary Forms
This work of literary analysis examines the great works of modern literature, from Shakespeare's tragedies to Joyce's Ulysses as historical signs - literary systems that are tokens of wider cultural and political realities. Covering such diverse genres as baroque tragedy, horror, detective fiction and classical realism, the book presents an analysis of the relations between high and mass culture
Gramsci and Marxism in Britain
Outside Italy, nowhere more than in Britain have Gramsci’s writings exercised so prolonged, deep or diversified an influence. Some of this has been channelled through the academic disciplines of history, political science and cultural studies, but much of it has worked directly upon the theory and practice of
Moving in Measure: Essays in honour of Brian Moloney
Moving in Measure: Essays in honour of Brian Moloney
(1990). Moving in Measure: Essays in honour of Brian Moloney. Italian Studies: Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 118-157
Disney animation and the business of childhood
Italian Culture in the Industrial Era, 1880-1980: Cultural Industries, Politics and the Public
This book aims to be both a cultural history of 20-th century Italy and a case study of cultural modernisation. Focusing on the development of the modern cultural industries such as publishing, cinema and broadcasting, it looks at their impact upon a society which remained predominantly agrarian until around 1950. Starting with an overview of Italy since 1990, the book traces the effects of industrialization and commercialization on popular cultu…
European Memories of the Second World War
Scenarios for the digital age: Convergence, personalization, exclusion
The new media system that has emerged worldwide since the early 1990s is characterized by increasing use of digital technologies in every area and convergence between once distinct media. In Italy there have been a number of national variations on this global pattern: relative weakness of state regulation, a move away from the dominance of the system by ‘generalist’ television, a high rate of cellular phone use and a slower than average growth of…
Building the Body of the Nation: Lombroso's L'antisemitismo and Fin-de-Siècle Italy
Italians in Algiers
Why did Saadi Yacef decide to go to Italy in 1964 to find a director to make a film based on his memoirs of the Battle of Algiers? How far was the resulting film shaped by its Algerian producer and how far by the Italians who worked on it – director Gillo Pontecorvo and screenwriter Franco Solinas, but also cinematographer Marcello Gatti, editor Mario Morra and composer Ennio Morricone? How far did it differ on the one hand from Yacef's original …
Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War
Examines the impact of mass culture and the making of modern Italy
Italian Film Studies: Personal Histories Doing Film History Today
Italian Film Studies: Personal Histories Doing Film History Today
The words of the migrant: Tales of contemporary Italy
L'articolo fornisce un quadro breve del progetto di ricerca ‘Linguaggio/lingua, spazio e potere in Italia sin dal 1800’ che sto conducendo alla British School at Rome dal 2006 al 2009, e fornisce esempi tratti da uno dei più completi case studies . Nell'insieme, con questi case studies si esaminano gli intrecci del linguaggio/lingua, dello spazio e del potere in un certo numero di istituzioni e agenzie, inclusi l'esercito, i tribunali e gli osped…
Looking for Italy's public sphere
Starting out from Jürgen Habermas's definition of the public sphere, and from the criticisms subsequently made of it by various scholars, this article considers whether the concept may be appropriately applied to Italy in the modern era. Is it correct to limit the public sphere to its ‘classic’ liberal form or to understand it in a normative sense rather than a more neutral, descriptive one? Can one, for example, speak of a fascist public sphere?…
I Watussi
The article reflects on the ‘absent connection’ between the fictional Watussi of the Italian hit song of 1963 and the real Tutsi, many of whom had fled Rwanda at that time to escape violence from the ascendant Hutu majority in the last years of Belgian rule. It considers the song's long afterlife and the stubborn persistence, decades later, of comic stereotypes of ‘Africans’ in Italian popular culture despite the growing number of African migrant…
Preparing and Recording Audio Commentaries
I have now recorded full-length commentaries for four ‘classic’ Italian films: Ossessione (Luchino Visconti, 1943), Il Gattopardo (Luchino Visconti, 1963), Il deserto rosso (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964), and Il conformista (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970). Although these credentials hardly make me an expert on the subject, I have learned some lessons about audio commentaries that I think are worth sharing. First lesson: do not risk going into a studi…
Introduction: Looking at margins
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Art (20 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (15 works) · History (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Literature (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works)