Title Fascist spectacle : the aesthetics of power in Mussolini's Italy / Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 303 pages) : illustrations Series Studies on the history of society and culture ; 28 Studies on the history of society and culture ; 28. Contents 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 Summary 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 narrative path that accompanied the making of the fascist regime and the construction of Mussolini's power. Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi reads fascist myths, rituals, images, and speeches as texts that tell the story of fascism. Linking Mussolini's elaboration of a new style of rule to the shaping of the regime's identity, she finds that in searching for symbolic means and forms to represent its political novelty, fascism actually created its own power, its own happening, its history Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-293) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Fascism -- Italy. Fascism and culture -- Italy Aesthetics, Italian -- 20th century. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Fascism & Totalitarianism. HISTORY / Europe / General Aesthetics, Italian Fascism Fascism and culture Politics and government Fascisme. Machtsvertoon. Theatraliteit. Fascisme -- Italie -- 1900-1945. Fascisme et culture -- Italie. Esthétique italienne -- 1900-1945. SUBJECT Italy -- Politics and government -- 1922-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069013 Subject Italy Italië Italie -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1922-1945. Form Electronic book LC no. 96028827 ISBN 9780520926158 0520926153 0585081476 9780585081472

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