Making the Fascist Self The Political Culture of Interwar Italy

Name: Making the Fascist Self The Political Culture of Interwar Italy
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ISBN: 9780801484209

ISBN-10: 0801484200

ISBN-13: 9780801484209

Edition: 1997

Authors: Mabel Berezin

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In her examination of the culture of Italian fascism, Mabel Berezin focuses on how Mussolini's regime consciously constructed a nonliberal public sphere to support its political aims. Fascism stresses form over content, she believes, and the regime tried to build its political support through the careful construction and manipulation of public spectacles or rituals such as parades, commemoration ceremonies, and holiday festivities. The fascists believed they could rely on the motivating power of spectacle, and experiential symbols. In contrast with the liberal democratic notion of separable public and private selves, Italian fascism attempted to merge the public and private selves in…

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List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 7/10/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Chronology


Abbreviations


Introduction: Post Fascism/Fascism: Italy 1994/1922



Interpreting Fascism/Explaining Ritual



Imagining a New Political Community: The Landscape of Ritual Action



Convergence and Commemoration: Reenacting the March on Rome



The Evolution of Ritual Genres: The March Continues



Colonizing Time: Rhythms of Fascist Ritual in Verona



Dead Bodies and Live Voices: Locating the Fascist Self


Conclusion: Fascism/Identity/Ritual


Methodological Appendix


Index