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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1. Verfasser: Falasca-Zamponi, Simonetta, 1957-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1997.
Schriftenreihe:Studies on the history of society and culture ; 28.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xi, 303 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-293) and index.
ISBN:9780520926158
0520926153
0585081476
9780585081472

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