Fascist Modernities Italy, 1922-1945

Name: Fascist Modernities Italy, 1922-1945
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ISBN: 9780520242166

ISBN-10: 0520242165

ISBN-13: 9780520242166

Edition: 2001

Authors: Ruth Ben-Ghiat

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat's innovative cultural history of Mussolini's dictatorship is a provocative discussion of the meanings of modernity in interwar Italy. Eloquent, pathbreaking, and deft in its use of a broad range of materials, this work argues that fascism appealed to many Italian intellectuals as a new model of modernity that would resolve the contemporary European crisis as well as long-standing problems of the national past. Ben-Ghiat shows that--at a time of fears over the erosion of national and social identities--Mussolini presented fascism as a movement that would allow economic development without harm to social boundaries and national traditions. She demonstrates that although the…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 327
Size: 6.61" wide x 8.94" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Toward a Fascist Culture


Politics and Patronage in Italian Fascist Culture



Generational Politics and Fascist Aesthetics



Anxieties of Influence


In Search of Modernity: Italians Abroad, 1929-34



Narrating the Nation


Toward a New Italian Literature


Critics and the Construction of Literary Identity


The Realist Novel and the Search for Moral Change


Fascist Literature and the Fiction of the Unpolitical


The Ethnic as National: Alvaro's Alternative



Envisioning Modernity


Style and Identity: Creating the National Film


Blasetti, Camerini, Matarazzo: Three Visions of a Different Modernity


The Development of Fascist Film Policy, 1933-35



Class Dismissed: Fascism's Politics of Youth


Toward a Fascist Modernity: Three Voices for Change


The Discipline of Revolution



Conquest and Collaboration


Fascist Modernity and Colonial Conquest


Between Expansion and Autarchy: Italian Culture in the Axis Years


Aryans and Others: The Fascist War against the Jews


Politics and Identity in Fascist Youth Culture, 1936-39



The Wars of Fascism


A Culture of War, 1940-43


Generations at War


Other Italies, Other Modernities


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index