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

Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi 2000 © University of California Press
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ISBN(s)
  • 9780520206236 (hardcover)
  • 9780520926158 (ebook)
  • 9780520226777 (paper)
Subject
  • European: 1800-present
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page ix)
  • Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • INTRODUCTION (page 1)
  • Narrative and Representation (page 2)
  • Aesthetics and Politics (page 9)
  • 1. MUSSOLINI'S AESTHETIC POLITICS (page 15)
  • The Politician as Artist (page 15)
  • From Art to Violence (page 26)
  • 2. MUSSOLINI THE MYTH (page 42)
  • Mussolini in the Culture of Personality (page 45)
  • Mussolini and the Party (page 56)
  • The Deification of Mussolini (page 64)
  • 3. THE POLITICS OF SYMBOLS: FROM CONTENT TO FORM (page 89)
  • The Myth of Rome (page 90)
  • The Discourse on Style (page 100)
  • 4. BODILY ECONOMY: CORPORATIVISM AND CONSUMPTION (page 119)
  • Disembodying the Body (page 120)
  • Material/Consumption (page 125)
  • Mimetic Economy (page 129)
  • Spectacle and Desire (page 139)
  • 5. WAR AND MELODRAMA (page 148)
  • The Politics of Land (page 149)
  • The Politics of War (page 162)
  • CONCLUSIONS (page 183)
  • Notes (page 195)
  • Bibliography (page 267)
  • Photograph Credits (page 295)
  • Index (page 297)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
ITALA 16.2 (Summer. 1998): 230-232 http://www.jstor.org/stable/29776521
AHR 104.2 (Apr. 1999): 675-676 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2650543
SOFO 37.2 (2000): 103-108 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20850421
CS 28.5 (Sep. 1999): 606-607 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2655047
SF 78.1 (Sep. 1999): 382-385 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3005811
AJS 103.6 (May. 1998): 1726-1728 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/507795
JCH 36.1 (Jan. 2001): 163-171 http://www.jstor.org/stable/261136
CtEH 8.2 (Jul. 1999): 317-334 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20081708
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