The cult of the Duce is the first book to explore systematically the personality cult of the Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, looking in detail at its many manifestations in the visual arts, architecture, political spectacle and the media, and analyses its controversial resonances in the postwar period.
The cult of the Duce is the first book to explore systematically the personality cult of the Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, looking in detail at its many manifestations in the visual arts, architecture, political spectacle and the media, and analyses its controversial resonances in the postwar period.
Stephen Gundle is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick Christopher Duggan is Professor of Modern Italian History at the University of Reading Giuliana Pieri is Reader in Italian and the Visual Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London
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Introduction Stephen Gundle, Christopher Duggan and Giuliana Pieri 1. Political cults in liberal Italy, 1861 1922 Christopher Duggan 2. The propagation of the cult of the Duce, 1925 26 Christopher Duggan 3. Margherita Sarfatti and the invention of the Duce Simona Storchi 4. Sanity from a lunatic asylum: Ida Dalser's threat to Mussolini's image Daniela Baratieri 5. Mass culture and the cult of personality Stephen Gundle 6. A town for the cult of the Duce: Predappio as a site of pilgrimage Sofia Serenelli 7. Mussolini's appearances in the regions Stephen Gundle 8. The internalisation of the cult of the Duce: the evidence of diaries and letters Christopher Duggan 9. Mussolini and the Italian Empire, 1935 41 Giuseppe Finaldi 10. Portraits of the Duce Giuliana Pieri 11. Photographing Mussolini Alessandra Antola 12. Mussolini as monument: the equestrian statue of the Duce at the Littoriale stadium in Bologna Simona Storchi 13. Mussolini and the city of Rome Eugene Pooley 14. The destiny of the art and artefacts Giuliana Pieri 15. The aftermath of the Mussolini cult: history, nostalgia and popular culture Stephen Gundle 16. Mussolini and postwar Italian television Vanessa Roghi Afterword R.J.B. Bosworth Notes on contributors Index
Introduction Stephen Gundle, Christopher Duggan and Giuliana Pieri 1. Political cults in liberal Italy, 1861 1922 Christopher Duggan 2. The propagation of the cult of the Duce, 1925 26 Christopher Duggan 3. Margherita Sarfatti and the invention of the Duce Simona Storchi 4. Sanity from a lunatic asylum: Ida Dalser's threat to Mussolini's image Daniela Baratieri 5. Mass culture and the cult of personality Stephen Gundle 6. A town for the cult of the Duce: Predappio as a site of pilgrimage Sofia Serenelli 7. Mussolini's appearances in the regions Stephen Gundle 8. The internalisation of the cult of the Duce: the evidence of diaries and letters Christopher Duggan 9. Mussolini and the Italian Empire, 1935 41 Giuseppe Finaldi 10. Portraits of the Duce Giuliana Pieri 11. Photographing Mussolini Alessandra Antola 12. Mussolini as monument: the equestrian statue of the Duce at the Littoriale stadium in Bologna Simona Storchi 13. Mussolini and the city of Rome Eugene Pooley 14. The destiny of the art and artefacts Giuliana Pieri 15. The aftermath of the Mussolini cult: history, nostalgia and popular culture Stephen Gundle 16. Mussolini and postwar Italian television Vanessa Roghi Afterword R.J.B. Bosworth Notes on contributors Index
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