Fascist spectacle : the aesthetics of power in Mussolini's Italy /

At the end of October 1922, in a whirlwind of events and unexpected circumstances, Benito Mussolini became prime minister of Italy. For the next twenty years, he dominated Italy as a cult hero and the duce of fascism and, later, founder of the empire. This richly textured cultural history traces the...

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Tác giả chính: Falasca-Zamponi, Simonetta, 1957-
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Berkeley : University of California Press ©1997.
Loạt:Studies on the history of society and culture ; 28.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.5973175
Mục lục:
  • 1. Mussolini's Aesthetic Politics. The Politician as Artist. From Art to Violence
  • 2. Mussolini the Myth. Mussolini in the Culture of Personality. Mussolini and the Party. The Deification of Mussolini
  • 3. The Politics of Symbols: From Content to Form. The Myth of Rome. The Discourse on Style
  • 4. Bodily Economy: Corporativism and Consumption. Disembodying the Body. Material/Consumption. Mimetic Economy. Spectacle and Desire
  • 5. War and Melodrama. The Politics of Land. The Politics of War.