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Friday Nov 07, 2014
Love, Sex and Popular Culture in 21st Century America
Friday Nov 07, 2014
Friday Nov 07, 2014
Back in the early 1960’s the world took note of the decadence of life in the Italian capital of Rome, in Fellini’s La Dolce Vita. Inspired by two major political/sex scandals of the era, the film, which would win the 1960 Palme d'or in Cannes, depicted a Rome that was ultra sophisticated, ultra modern and ultra decadent.
Fifty plus years later, Prof. Roger Friedland would decide to move to Rome with his wife and adolescent daughters, because he saw Rome as an antidote to America being awash in sexuality, modernity, sophistication and decadence. He writes about his experience in Amore: An American Father's Roman Holiday
How have the tables switched so dramatically, and what does it say about the state of love, sex and popular culture in the 21st century.
My conversation with Roger Friedland:
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