Vie Nuove

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Vie Nuove
CategoriesPolitical magazine
FrequencyWeekly
FounderLuigi Longo
Year founded1946
Final issue1978
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Vie Nuove (meaning New Ways in English) was a weekly popular magazine published in Italy between 1946 and 1978. The magazine was one of the post-war publications of the Italian Communist Party which used it to attract larger sections of the population.[1][2]

History and profile[]

The magazine was launched by the Communist Party in 1946 with the goal of informing the party members.[3] The founder was Luigi Longo[4][5] who also edited the magazine.[6] Historian Paolo Spriano was one of the contributors of the magazine.[7] Another contributor was Maria Musu.[8] Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini published his writings in a column in the magazine in which he also replied the questions of readers concerning literature, religion, Marxist theory, among others.[3] The column was titled Dialoghi con Passolini (meaning Passolini in Dialogue) and lasted from 28 May 1960 to 30 September 1965 with one year interruption between 1963 and September 1964.[3][9]

Vie Nuovo valued the female movie stars of the 1950s, including Gina Lollobrigida, Silvana Mangano and Sophia Loren who were featured in the magazine.[10] However, it was against photoromances arguing that these were the tools for bourgeois and capitalist propaganda which mortified women due to the fact they were sexually objectified in their photographs.[8]

In 1952 Vie Nuovo reached the highest circulation selling 350,000 copies.[3] The magazine sold 125-130,000 copies in 1963.[11] The circulation was 114-120,000 copies in late 1966.[11]

References[]

  1. ^ Juan José Gómez Gutiérrez (2002). Italian Communist Party cultural policies during the post-war period 1944-1951 (PDF) (PhD thesis). The Open University.
  2. ^ Jessica L. Harris (2017). ""Noi Donne" and "Famiglia Cristiana": Communists, Catholics, and American Female Culture in Cold War Italy" (PDF). Carte Italiane. 2 (11). doi:10.5070/C9211030384.
  3. ^ a b c d Robert Samuel Clive Gordon (1996). Pasolini: Forms of Subjectivity. Clarendon Press. pp. 47–48. ISBN 978-0-19-815905-6.
  4. ^ "The PCI Foundation in Cover". gettyimages. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  5. ^ Guglielmo Perfetti (2018). Absolute beginners of the "Belpaese." Italian youth culture and the Communist Party in the years of the economic boom (PDF) (PhD thesis). University of Glasgow. p. 46.
  6. ^ Hearings Before the Committee on Un-American Activities. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1956. p. 587.
  7. ^ Laura Ciglioni (2017). "Italian Mass Media and the Atom in the 1960s: The Memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Peaceful Atom (1963–1967)". In Elisabetta Bini; Igor Londero (eds.). Nuclear Italy: An International History of Italian Nuclear Policies during the Cold War. Trieste: Edizione Univerita di Trieste. pp. 165–179. ISBN 978-88-8303-812-9.
  8. ^ a b Paola Bonifazio (2017). "Political Photoromances: The Italian Communist Party, Famiglia Cristiana, and the Struggle for Women's Hearts". Italian Studies. 72 (4): 393–413. doi:10.1080/00751634.2017.1370790. S2CID 158612028.
  9. ^ Alessandro Valenzisi (January–June 2014). "What Makes an Ideo-comic Fable?" (PDF). International Journal of Comparative Literature and Arts. 1 (1).
  10. ^ Stephen Gundle (2020). "What's Good for Fiat is Good for Italy". In Gilbert M. Joseph; Emily S. Rosenberg (eds.). Between Hollywood and Moscow. The Italian Communists and the Challenge of Mass Culture, 1943–1991. Duke University Press. p. 94. doi:10.1515/9780822380344. ISBN 9780822380344.
  11. ^ a b Laura Ciglioni (2017). "Italian Public Opinion in the Atomic Age: Mass market Magazines Facing Nuclear Issues (1963–1967)". Cold War History. 17 (3): 207. doi:10.1080/14682745.2017.1291633.
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