Autore
Dei, Fabio

Titolo
Pop-politica: le basi culturali del berlusconismo
Periodico
Studi culturali
Anno: 2011 - Volume: 8 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 471 - Pagina finale: 489

«Berlusconism» is a key problem for contemporary Italian cultural studies. Silvio Berlusconi's political success in the last twenty years is rooted in a long durée dimension of Italian society (anti-statalism, weakness of civic values), as well as in new relationships between politics and the production and consumption of popular culture. Aiming to open a wider debate in this journal, I propose here a survey of some topics raised by the cultural logic of Berlusconism, such as: a) a «pop-politics» in which «higher» and «lower» spheres, serious debates and trash showbusiness, public and private concerns are constantly conflated; b) anti-intellectualism and the struggle against traditional cultural institutions; c) the return of the body as political subject - the leader's body, but also women's bodies as objects of voyeuristic desire; d) the use of the «gift» as a mediator of patronage relationships; e) the pivotal role of commercial television in supporting electoral successes and in creating a «Berlusconian» ethics and aesthetics.



SICI: 1824-369X(2011)8:3<471:PLBCDB>2.0.ZU;2-M
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