Secret Modernity

Peter Friedl

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Issue #10
November 2009










Notes
1

See Angelo Del Boca, Italiani, brava gente? (Vicenza: Neri Pozza, 2008), 206.

2

Khaled Mahmoud, “My Father the Lion of the Desert: A Talk with Mohamed Omar al Mukhtar,” Asharq Alawsat, June 18, 2009.

3

Paulos Milkias, “The Battle of Adwa: The Historic Victory of Ethiopia over European Colonialism,” in The Battle of Adwa, eds. Paulos Milkias and Getachew Metaferia (New York: Algora, 2005), 65. The best depiction is Haile Gerima’s film Adwa: An African Victory (1999).

4

Pier Paolo Pasolini, Petrolio (Turin: Einaudi, 1992), 262.

5

See the chapter “Selling the Black Body: Advertising and the African Campaign,” in Karen Pinkus, Bodily Regimes: Italian Advertising under Fascism (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1995), 22–81.

6

Cited from Cecilia Boggio, “Black Shirts/Black Skins,” in A Place in the Sun: Africa in Italian Colonial Culture from Post-Unification to the Present, ed. Patrizia Palumbo (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2003), 295.

7

Angelo Del Boca, Gli italiani in Africa Orientale, vol. II, La conquista dell’Impero (Rome and Bari: Laterza, 1979), 200.

8

Carlo Enrico Rava, “Costruire in colonia,” in Domus 109 (1937), 25. Quoted from Robin Pickering-Iazzi, “Mass-Mediated Fantasies of Feminine Conquest, 1930–1940,” in A Place in the Sun, 208.

9

See Sergio Luzzatto, The Body of Il Duce: Mussolini’s Corpse and the Fortunes of Italy (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2005), 79.

10

Cited from Ruth Ben-Ghiat, “The Italian Colonial Cinema. Agendas and Audiences” in Italian Colonialism, eds. Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Mia Fuller (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 180.

11

On 11 May 2009 came the fusion of Cinecittà Holding and Istituto Luce to Cinecittà Luce S.p.A. The old eagle profile has also been maintained in the new logo.

12

Cited from Del Boca, Italiani, brava gente?, 55.

13

James G. Frazer, The Golden Bough (1890; London: Penguin Classics, 1998), 856.

14

See Edward Denison, Guan Yu Ren, and Naigzy Gebremedhin, Asmara: Africa’s Secret Modernist City (London and New York: Merrell, 2003). The traveling exhibition with the same title was first shown in the autumn of 2006 at the Deutsche Architektur Zentrum (DAZ) in Berlin.

15

See Del Boca, Italiani, brava gente?, 73–88.

Translated from the German by Lisa Rosenblatt.