Vie Nuove
| Categories | Political magazine |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Founder | Luigi Longo |
| Year founded | 1946 |
| Final issue | 1978 |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Vie Nuove (Italian: New Ways) 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[edit]
The magazine was launched by the Communist Party in 1946 with the goal of informing the party members about recent developments.[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 and featured them.[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[edit]
- ^ Juan José Gómez Gutiérrez (2002). Italian Communist Party cultural policies during the post-war period 1944-1951 (PhD thesis). The Open University. doi:10.21954/ou.ro.0000e7f7.
- ^ Jessica L. Harris (2017). ""Noi Donne" and "Famiglia Cristiana": Communists, Catholics, and American Female Culture in Cold War Italy". Carte Italiane. 2 (11). doi:10.5070/C9211030384.
- ^ a b c d Robert Samuel Clive Gordon (1996). Pasolini: Forms of Subjectivity. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 47–48. ISBN 978-0-19-815905-6.
- ^ "The PCI Foundation in Cover". gettyimages. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
- ^ Guglielmo Perfetti (2018). Absolute beginners of the "Belpaese." Italian youth culture and the Communist Party in the years of the economic boom (PhD thesis). University of Glasgow. p. 46.
- ^ The Great Pretense. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1956. p. 587.
- ^ 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. hdl:10077/15336. ISBN 978-88-8303-812-9.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Alessandro Valenzisi (January–June 2014). "What Makes an Ideo-comic Fable?". International Journal of Comparative Literature and Arts. 1 (1).
- ^ 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. Durham, NC; London: Duke University Press. p. 94. doi:10.1515/9780822380344. ISBN 9780822380344.
- ^ 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.