Newsletter - International Gramsci Society

Gramsci on Film/Video
Ms. Laura Arduini of the Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio e
Democratico has kindly drawn our attention to a valuable document that is likely to be of
special interest to many members of the IGS. It is a booklet entitled Gramsci e il
Cinematografo which was prepared for the Archivio Audiovisivo by Fabrizio Berruti. The
booklet contains detailed information on films about Antonio Gramsci—many of which are
now also available in video-cassettes. The Archivio Audiovisivo, which was founded in 1985,
also houses an extensive collection of audio-visual material related to the history of labor and
the labor movement, especially in Italy. For more information write to: Archivio Audiovisivo
del Movimento Operaio e Democratico, Via F. S. Sprovieri 14, 00125 Roma. Their telephone
number is: (6) 581-8442.
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Members’ Notes
Renate Holub, of the Center for German and European Studies at the University of
California at Berkeley, has kindly furnished us with a list of the papers on Gramsci which she
delivered in 1993: “Gramsci and African American Feminist Thought,” IRAS-Lecture,
Center for German and European Studies, UC-Berkeley, February 1993; “Gramsci on
Popular Culture,” UC-Berkeley, March 1993; “The Political Implications of Gramscian
Memory,” International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Pittsburgh, May 1993;
“Gramsci’s Usefulness for a ‘Differential Pragmatics,’” University of Zurich, May 1993;
“Gramsci’s Methode,” University of Frankfurt, May 1993; “Differenzpragmatik und
Gramsci,” Humboldt University, Berlin, May 1993. Renate Holub has also produced a radio
progam on Gramsci for KPFA, San Francisco. It was aired in June 1993.
Luiz Jorge Werneck Vianna has written to us from Rio de Janeiro, giving the
following description of his current research: “Negli ultimi due anni mi sono dedicato a studi
sul confronto fra due delle matrici forti nella formazione della politica brasiliana: l’iberismo
e l’americanismo. In questo senso, ho scritto i saggi Americanismo ed iberismo: la polemica
fra Oliveira Viana e Tavares Bastos, nonchè Il problema dell’americanismo in Tocqueville.
Adesso, lavoro in un’altro saggio, Il problema dell’americanismo in Gramsci, per inquadrare
la bibliografia brasiliana ispiratasi a Barrington Moore nella questione della rivoluzione
passiva in Gramsci. Questa elaborazione riprende la prospettiva che ha segnato la mia tesi di
dottorato, poi publicata sotto il titolo di Liberalismo e sindacato nel Brasile (1976), nella
quale i concetti di Gramsci hanno svolto un ruolo centrale nella mia spiegazione del processo
di modernizzazione capitalista nel Brasile.”
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