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Fascist Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini's Italy Volume 28

Fascist Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini's Italy Volume 28

Falasca-Zamponi, Simonetta

Paperback

Series: Studies on the History of Society and Culture, Book 28

General World HistoryItalian History

ISBN10: 0520226771
ISBN13: 9780520226777
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Aug 31 2000
Pages: 314
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
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.

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