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A New Guide to Italian CinemaThe Later 1960s

A New Guide to Italian Cinema: The Later 1960s 1968 Student protests, labor unrest, Center–Left coalition governments 1969 Bombing of bank at Piazza Fontana in Milan opens autunno caldo protests and anni di piombo (leaden years) terrorist period in Italy ot since the days of D’Annunzio’s takeover of Fiume and Fascism’s identifi- Ncation with songs of Giovinezza (Youth) during the 1920s had a youth movement so determined cultural and political change in Italy. In 1962 compul- sory education was extended to age 14 and entrance restrictions to state universi- ties were eased. With the demographic increase of the postwar baby boom, the result was overcrowding. Italian universities were built and designed to serve far fewer students than were attending by the 1960s. Furthermore, in the rebellious spirit of the times the education system in Italy was interpreted as having decreas- ing applications in the technical economy and a decreasing relevance within the context of consumer driven popular culture. The student and youth rebellions centering on the year 1968 actually occurred throughout the West and should not be considered as national events but part of an international demographic phenomenon. In the West, by 1968, much of the offspring of the generation that had suffered through the 1930s economic depres- http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A New Guide to Italian CinemaThe Later 1960s

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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2007
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978-1-4039-7565-2
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97 –111
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10.1057/9780230601826_7
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1968 Student protests, labor unrest, Center–Left coalition governments 1969 Bombing of bank at Piazza Fontana in Milan opens autunno caldo protests and anni di piombo (leaden years) terrorist period in Italy ot since the days of D’Annunzio’s takeover of Fiume and Fascism’s identifi- Ncation with songs of Giovinezza (Youth) during the 1920s had a youth movement so determined cultural and political change in Italy. In 1962 compul- sory education was extended to age 14 and entrance restrictions to state universi- ties were eased. With the demographic increase of the postwar baby boom, the result was overcrowding. Italian universities were built and designed to serve far fewer students than were attending by the 1960s. Furthermore, in the rebellious spirit of the times the education system in Italy was interpreted as having decreas- ing applications in the technical economy and a decreasing relevance within the context of consumer driven popular culture. The student and youth rebellions centering on the year 1968 actually occurred throughout the West and should not be considered as national events but part of an international demographic phenomenon. In the West, by 1968, much of the offspring of the generation that had suffered through the 1930s economic depres-

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