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This cultural history of Mussolini's dictatorship discusses the meanings of modernity in interwar Italy. The work argues that fascism appealed to many Italian i
Donatello Among the Blackshirts
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Authors: Claudia Lazzaro
Categories: Art
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Focuses on the appropriation of visual elements of the classical, medieval, and Renaissance past in Mussolini's Italy.
Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
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Pages: 446
Authors: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-10 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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What modern authoritarian leaders have in common (and how they can be stopped). Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritari
The Unmaking of Fascist Aesthetics
Language: en
Pages: 310
Authors: Kriss Ravetto
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

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In works by filmmakers from Bertolucci to Spielberg, debauched images of nazi and fascist eroticism, symbols of violence and immorality, often bear an uncanny r
Italian Fascism's Empire Cinema
Language: en
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Authors: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat provides the first in-depth study of feature and documentary films produced under the auspices of Mussolini’s government that took as their sub