Popular High Culture in Italian Media, 1950-1970 Mona Lisa Covergirl /

• Main Author: Barron, Emma (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Italian and Italian American Studies
• Subjects: Italy-History.; Europe-History-1492-.; Civilization-History.; Popular Culture.; History of Italy.; History of Modern Europe.; Cultural History.; Popular Culture .

When Mona Lisa smiled enigmatically from the cover of the Italian magazine Epoca in 1957, she gazed out at more than three million readers. As Emma Barron argues, her appearance on the cover is emblematic of the distinctive ways that high culture was integrated into Italy's mass culture boom in...