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Italy and the MilitarySports and the Military in Italian Newspapers from the First World War

Italy and the Military: Sports and the Military in Italian Newspapers from the First World War [Francesca Gatta’s chapter examines the proximity between sports and the military experience in Italy during the First World War through newspaper articles. The war as portrayed in the newspapers differed gravely from the anonymous experience of mass war that is described in diaries and history handbooks. This can be explained by two factors: on the one hand, wartime censorship did not allow journalists to truly portray the war with facts (as Isnenghi says, without facts, reporters are left with nothing but the rhetoric of heroism): on the other hand, a newly arisen sports journalism considered sports a preparation for war. This conviction is well represented in the magazine Lo sport illustrato, originally a weekly illustrated supplement of La Gazzetta dello Sport, which expressed its attitude toward the Italian intervention by changing its name to Lo sport illustrato e la guerra at the beginning of the war (and again in 1917 to Il secolo illustrato). As Gatta notices, the magazine made ample room for events from the front but interpreted them like sports events with a singular commixture of the languages of sport and the military, which was facilitated by the proximity of sports fields and battlefields.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Italy and the MilitarySports and the Military in Italian Newspapers from the First World War

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series
Editors: Roveri, Mattia
Gatta, Francesca
Italy and the Military — Dec 23, 2020
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
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978-3-030-57160-3
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77 –96
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-57161-0_3
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[Francesca Gatta’s chapter examines the proximity between sports and the military experience in Italy during the First World War through newspaper articles. The war as portrayed in the newspapers differed gravely from the anonymous experience of mass war that is described in diaries and history handbooks. This can be explained by two factors: on the one hand, wartime censorship did not allow journalists to truly portray the war with facts (as Isnenghi says, without facts, reporters are left with nothing but the rhetoric of heroism): on the other hand, a newly arisen sports journalism considered sports a preparation for war. This conviction is well represented in the magazine Lo sport illustrato, originally a weekly illustrated supplement of La Gazzetta dello Sport, which expressed its attitude toward the Italian intervention by changing its name to Lo sport illustrato e la guerra at the beginning of the war (and again in 1917 to Il secolo illustrato). As Gatta notices, the magazine made ample room for events from the front but interpreted them like sports events with a singular commixture of the languages of sport and the military, which was facilitated by the proximity of sports fields and battlefields.]

Published: Dec 23, 2020

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