The cult of the Duce

Mussolini and the Italians
Herausgeber: Duggan, Christopher; Pieri, Giuliana; Gundle, Stephen

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 614g
• ISBN-13: 9780719088964
• ISBN-10: 0719088968
• Artikelnr.: 37743595

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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