Format:
Online-Ressource (x, 317 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520223632
Series Statement:
Studies on the history of society and culture 42
Content:
Ruth Ben-Ghiat's innovative cultural history of Mussolini's dictatorship is a provocative discussion of the meanings of modernity in interwar Italy. Eloquent, pathbreaking, and deft in its use of a broad range of materials, this work argues that fascism appealed to many Italian intellectuals as a new model of modernity that would resolve the contemporary European crisis as well as long-standing problems of the national past. Ben-Ghiat shows that-at a time of fears over the erosion of national and social identities-Mussolini presented fascism as a movement that would allow economic development
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-304) and index
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; 1 TOWARD A FASCIST CULTURE; Politics and Patronage in Italian Fascist Culture; Taste Wars I: Generational Politics and Fascist Aesthetics; Taste Wars II: Anxieties of Influence; In Search of Modernity: Italians Abroad, 1929-34; 2 NARRATING THE NATION; Toward a New Italian Literature; Critics and the Construction of Literary Identity; The Realist Novel and the Search for Moral Change; Fascist Literature and the Fiction of the Unpolitical; The Ethnic as National: Alvaro's Alternative; 3 ENVISIONING MODERNITY
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Style and Identity: Creating the National FilmBlasetti, Camerini, Matarazzo: Three Visions of a Different Modernity; The Development of Fascist Film Policy, 1933-35; 4 CLASS DISMISSED: FASCISM'S POLITICS OF YOUTH; Toward a Fascist Modernity: Three Voices for Change; The Discipline of Revolution; 5 CONQUEST AND COLLABORATION; Fascist Modernity and Colonial Conquest; Between Expansion and Autarchy: Italian Culture in the Axis Years; Aryans and Others: The Fascist War against the Jews; Politics and Identity in Fascist Youth Culture, 1936-39; 6 THE WARS OF FASCISM; A Culture of War, 1940-43
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Generations at WarOther Italies, Other Modernities; EPILOGUE; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520223639
Additional Edition:
Print version Fascist Modernities : Italy, 1922-1945
Language:
English
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