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

Falasca-Zamponi, Simonetta

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0520206231 ISBN 13: 9780520206236

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 1997

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi is Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

"An excellent and timely book. The idea of studying Italiam fascism as a 'society of the spectacle' that used symbols, rituals, and a cult of the leader to create itself as it unfolded is a brilliant stroke."Walter L. Adamson, author ofAvant-Garde Florence: From Modernism to Fascism

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of California Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0520206231
• ISBN 13: 9780520206236
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 303