Cultural memory against institutionalised amnesia: the Togliatti amnesty and Antonioni’s I vinti
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DOI: 10.1017/mit.2018.18
Abstract: This article studies post-war Italy’s forgetful attitude towards its Fascist past by interpreting a political measure, the Togliatti amnesty (1946), and 1950s film censorship as ‘institutionalised forms of (…) amnesia’ (Ricoeur 2004, 452). The amnesty,… read more here.
Keywords: institutionalised amnesia; memory institutionalised; togliatti amnesty; fascista ... See more keywords