Guido Bonsaver is Professor of Italian Cultural History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Pembroke College. He studied at the universities of Bologna and Verona, and completed his PhD while teaching at Reading University. Before arriving at Oxford in 2003, he taught at the universities of Sussex, Kent, and Royal Holloway London. In 2012 he was appointed Ufficiale dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica by the Italian government in recognition of his contribution to Italian culture. He has collaborated with a variety of media outlets such as BBC radio and television channels, RAI radio and tv channels, and various specialist and generalist journals. His research work centres on Italy's post-Unification cultural history, with a particular interest in literature and cinema.

Bonsaver's monograph is well balanced and provides in-depth insights despite the extended timeframe considered and the vast corpus analyzed...America in Italian Culture is thus a valuable addition to the literature, offering reflections on the influence of American culture and the way that anti-Americanism developed fueled by Fascist policies and restrictions.

• Preface Introduction Part 1: The Discovery of America: 1861-1919 1: Cross-national Influence in Post-Unification Italy 2: The Idea of America in Italy's Two Nations 3: American Mass Production and the Dawn of Italian Mass Culture 4: American Letters: Literature, Opera Librettos, and Pragmatism 5: The Great War and the Arrival of Jazz Part 2: America in Fascist Italy, 1922-1943 6: The USA as a Mirror of Modernity 7: The Craze for American Literature and Comics, and the Plight of the English Language 8: Dancing to Jazz on Fascist Airwaves 9: The Lure of Hollywood 10: American Culture in Fascism's Final Years (1938-1943) Conclusion

Guido Bonsaver is Professor of Italian Cultural History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Pembroke College. He studied at the universities of Bologna and Verona, and completed his PhD while teaching at Reading University. Before arriving at Oxford in 2003, he taught at the universities of Sussex, Kent, and Royal Holloway London. In 2012 he was appointed Ufficiale dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica by the Italian government in recognition of his contribution to Italian culture. He has collaborated with a variety of media outlets such as BBC radio and television channels, RAI radio and tv channels, and various specialist and generalist journals. His research work centres on Italy's post-Unification cultural history, with a particular interest in literature and cinema.

Bonsaver's monograph is well balanced and provides in-depth insights despite the extended timeframe considered and the vast corpus analyzed...America in Italian Culture is thus a valuable addition to the literature, offering reflections on the influence of American culture and the way that anti-Americanism developed fueled by Fascist policies and restrictions.

• Preface Introduction Part 1: The Discovery of America: 1861-1919 1: Cross-national Influence in Post-Unification Italy 2: The Idea of America in Italy's Two Nations 3: American Mass Production and the Dawn of Italian Mass Culture 4: American Letters: Literature, Opera Librettos, and Pragmatism 5: The Great War and the Arrival of Jazz Part 2: America in Fascist Italy, 1922-1943 6: The USA as a Mirror of Modernity 7: The Craze for American Literature and Comics, and the Plight of the English Language 8: Dancing to Jazz on Fascist Airwaves 9: The Lure of Hollywood 10: American Culture in Fascism's Final Years (1938-1943) Conclusion