Literary and Cinematic Representations of Sacred Italian Resistance Memory: The Holy Partisan-Martyr as Hero

Every group is organised and held together by some specific psychological tendency or group of tendencies, which give the group a bias in its dealings with external circumstances. The bias constructs the special persistent features of group culture … [and this] immediately settle[s] what the individual will observe in his environment and what he will connect from his past life with this direct response. — F. C. Bartlett (1932)