Fascist Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini's ItalyUniversity of California Press, 1 sept. 2023 - 314 pages This richly textured cultural history of Italian fascism traces the narrative path that accompanied the making of the regime and the construction of Mussolini's power. Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi reads fascist myths, rituals, images, and speeches as texts that tell the story of fascism. Linking Mussolini's elaboration of a new ruling style to the shaping of the regime's identity, she finds that in searching for symbolic means and forms that would represent its political novelty, fascism in fact brought itself into being, creating its own power and history. Falasca-Zamponi argues that an aesthetically founded notion of politics guided fascist power's historical unfolding and determined the fascist regime's violent understanding of social relations, its desensitized and dehumanized claims to creation, its privileging of form over ethical norms, and ultimately its truly totalitarian nature. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997. This richly textured cultural history of Italian fascism traces the narrative path that accompanied the making of the regime and the construction of Mussolini's power. Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi reads fascist myths, rituals, images, and speeches as texts t |
Table des matières
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MUSSOLINI THE MYTH | 42 |
Mussolini in the Culture of Personality | 45 |
Mussolini and the Party | 56 |
The Deification of Mussolini | 64 |
THE POLITICS OF SYMBOLS FROM CONTENT TO FORM | 89 |
The Myth of Rome | 90 |
Mimetic Economy | 129 |
Spectacle and Desire | 139 |
WAR AND MELODRAMA | 148 |
The Politics of Land | 149 |
The Politics of War | 162 |
CONCLUSIONS | 183 |
Notes | 195 |
Bibliography | 267 |
The Discourse on Style | 100 |
BODILY ECONOMY CORPORATIVISM AND CONSUMPTION | 119 |
Disembodying the Body | 120 |
MaterialConsumption | 125 |
Photograph Credits | 295 |
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Page 9 - War is beautiful because it establishes man's dominion over the subjugated machinery by means of gas masks, terrifying megaphones, flame throwers, and small tanks. War is beautiful because it initiates the dreamt-of metallization of the human body.
Page 30 - Proletarian violence, carried on as a pure and simple manifestation of the sentiment of the class war, appears thus as a very fine and very heroic thing; it is at the service of the immemorial interests of civilisation; it is not perhaps the most appropriate method of obtaining immediate material advantages, but it may save the world from barbarism.
Page 9 - War is beautiful because it initiates the dreamt-of metalization of the human body. War is beautiful because it enriches a flowering meadow with the fiery orchids of machine guns. War is beautiful because it combines the gunfire, the cannonades, the cease-fire, the scents, and the stench of putrefaction into a symphony.
Page 25 - Fascism is a religious conception in which man is seen in his immanent relationship with a superior law and with an objective Will that transcends the particular individual and raises him to conscious membership of a spiritual society.