Fascist Spectacle
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-22677-7 (ISBN)
This richly textured cultural history of Italian fascism traces the narrative path that accompanied the making of the 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 ruling style to the shaping of the regime's identity, she finds that in searching for symbolic means and forms that would represent its political novelty, fascism in fact brought itself into being, creating its own power and history. Falasca-Zamponi argues that an aesthetically founded notion of politics guided fascist power's historical unfolding and determined the fascist regime's violent understanding of social relations, its desensitized and dehumanized claims to creation, its privileging of form over ethical norms, and ultimately its truly totalitarian nature.
Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi is Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
Narrative and Representation
Aesthetics and Politics
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
CONCLUSIONS
Notes
Bibliography
Photograph Credits
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.8.2000 |
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Reihe/Serie | Studies on the History of Society and Culture ; 28 |
Zusatzinfo | 21 b-w photographs |
Verlagsort | Berkerley |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 454 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-520-22677-1 / 0520226771 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-22677-7 / 9780520226777 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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