Vie Nuove

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Vie Nuove
CategoriesPolitical magazine
FrequencyWeekly
Founder Luigi Longo
Year founded1946
Final issue1978
Country Italy
Based in Rome
Language Italian

Vie Nuove (Italian: New Ways) was a weekly popular magazine published in Rome, Italy, between 1946 and 1978. The magazine was one of the post-war publications of the Italian Communist Party which used it to attract larger sections of the population. [1] [2]

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History and profile

The magazine was launched by the Communist Party in 1946 with the goal of informing the party members about recent developments. [3] Another function of the magazine was to develop and disseminate a positive image of the Soviet Union focusing on its technical superiority over the Western capitalist countries. [4] The founder was Luigi Longo [5] [6] who also edited the magazine. [7] It was headquartered in Rome. [8]

Historian Paolo Spriano was one of the contributors. [9] Another contributor was Maria Musu. [10] Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini published his writings in a column in the magazine in which he also replied the questions of readers concerning literature, religion, Marxist theory, among others. [3] The column was titled Dialoghi con Passolini (Italian: Passolini in Dialogue) and lasted from 28 May 1960 to 30 September 1965 with one year interruption between 1963 and September 1964. [3] [11]

Vie Nuovo sponsored beauty contests like its sister publications L'Unità and Pattuglia . [12] The magazine valued the female movie stars of the 1950s, including Gina Lollobrigida, Silvana Mangano and Sophia Loren and frequently covered articles about them. [13] However, it was against photoromances arguing that these were the tools for bourgeois and capitalist propaganda which mortified women due to the fact they were sexually objectified in their photographs. [10]

In 1952 Vie Nuovo reached the highest circulation selling 350,000 copies. [3] Next year its circulation was 200,000 copies. [8] The magazine sold 125-130,000 copies in 1963. [14] Its circulation was between 114,000 and 120,000 copies in late 1966. [14]

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  7. ↑ The Great Pretense. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1956. p. 587.
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