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Staging Fascism 18BL and the Theater of Masses for Masses

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ISBN-10: 0804726086

ISBN-13: 9780804726085

Edition: 1996

Authors: Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Hal Foster

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The mass spectacle 18BL, which involved 2000 amateur actors and various military units, failed to institute a revolutionary fascist theatre of the future. This book looks at the place of media, technology and machinery in the fascist imagination.
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Book details

List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 8/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 9.02" wide x 7.52" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

Jeffrey Schnapp is the faculty director of metaLAB (at) Harvard, where he is Professor of Romance Literatures, teaches at the Graduate School of Design, and serves as faculty codirector of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Hal Foster is the Townsend Martin Class of 1917 Professor of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University, and the author of many books, including "The Return of the Real", "Design and Crime", "Prosthetic Gods", and "The Art-Architecture Complex". A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was the 2010 recipient of the Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing and the 2013 recipient of the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism.

Abbreviations
Foreword: Mothertruckers
Two October Revolutions
Staging the Miracle of the Corporative Age
Theaters of Masses for Masses
The Adventures of Mother Cartridge-Pouch
Mystical Experiences, Actualized and Unactualized
Metallization Takes Command
The Dictator and the Dandy
After the Deluge
App. A. Blasetti on the Theater of Masses
App. B. Participants and Program
App. C. Biographies of Principal Participants in 18 BL
App. D. A Chronology of 18 BL
App. E. Interview With Corrado Sofia
App. F. Budgets
Notes
Index