The Culture of Reconstruction: European Literature, Thought and Film, 1945–50

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-11
The Communist Party and the Politics of Cultural Change in Postwar Italy, 1945–50....Pages 12-36
Writing and the Real World: Italian Narrative in the Period of Reconstruction....Pages 37-50
The Making and Unmaking of Neorealism in Postwar Italy....Pages 51-66
The Place of Neorealism in Italian Cinema from 1945 to 1954....Pages 67-87
Tradition and Social Change in the French and Italian Cinemas of the Reconstruction....Pages 88-102
Humanism and National Unity: the Ideological Reconstruction of France....Pages 103-119
Les Lettres Françaises and the Failure of the French Postwar ‘Renaissance’....Pages 120-139
The Reconstruction of Culture: Peuple et Culture and the Popular Education Movement....Pages 140-152
The Chameleon Rearguard of Cultural Tradition: the Case of Jacques Laurent....Pages 153-171
German Literature in 1945: Liberation for a New Beginning?....Pages 172-190
Continuity or Change? Aspects of West German Writing after 1945....Pages 191-207
West German Theatre in the Period of Reconstruction....Pages 208-221
Back Matter....Pages 222-240