From myth to Borgata

This study examines the Roman borgate 's (peripheral slums') urbanistic and social transformations in Italian literature and cinema that emerged during the postwar period. I begin my analysis with works produced at the close of World War II and conclude with those signaling the inauguration of Italy's Economic Boom. This work does not attempt to chart Rome, although occasional maps illustrate the modern capital city's irregular, "oil stain" expansion. Nor does this study attempt to integrate an overarching theoretical explanation for the city's shape and for the issues afflicting it while it transformed into the administrative seat of a dictatorship in that of a democratic government. From Myth to Borgata , rather, uses a variety of modern European philosophies to address the socio-political and economic circumstances that affected individual artistic representations of Rome in post-World War II Italian narratives.