| Autor: |
Maria Pia Pozzato |
| Jazyk: |
English<br />Italian<br />Dutch; Flemish |
| Rok vydání: |
2014 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Incontri: Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani, Vol 29, Iss 2, Pp 66-78 (2014) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2214-7705 |
| DOI: |
10.18352/incontri.9879 |
| Popis: |
Political leadership in Italy in the light of the national comical traditionThis essay deals with humour and satire in politics. The issue of humour is contextualized within a wider cultural phenomenon called ‘show civilisation’ or ‘schermopolis’, i.e. the pervasiveness of screens in our everyday life. In doing so I will consider the role of new media and social networks in fostering the use of humour in political discourse. Next I will try to find a new framework for forms of popularity in politics by adapting to the current conjuncture the definitions given by Eric Landowsky at the end of the 1980s. Nowadays the politician-vedette is indeed the most popular form within the show civilisation phenomenon mentioned above. I will demonstrate that some Italian versions of this figure seem inspired by a rich Italian Comedy tradition. Finally, I will propose a number of hypotheses about the ways in which leaders obtain electoral consensus, for example through physical attractiveness, sympathy, and their ability to amuse people. In this perspective, a leader who is good for a laugh seems automatically a good leader. |
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