Pasta, Pizza and Propaganda

Pasta, Pizza and PropagandaA lively and rigorous historical account of Italian food television narrated from a political point of view. In referring to the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, the book links food, television and politics and shows how the three give way to the political construction of various versions of Italy, from 1954 to the present. 12 b w photographs. New Books Network (New Books in Italian Studies) interview with Francesco Buscemi

and photography written over the course of two decades

politics and social conventions while acknowledging a range of contexts

Published seven years after her debut collection A Dome of Many-Coloured Glasses

our compulsions are intertwined with our personas

Internationally recognized scholars writing on themes including mapping

and demonstrates a range of innovative methods and approaches

how it embraced Putinism and an imperial vision through a series of bloody conflicts

Using ideas from performance studies

the impact on domestic politics of revolution and war abroad

Ros King's extensive introduction

which includes technology

contrary to many assumptions