The Cult of the Duce
Mussolini and the Italians
Published on 31. January 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-7190-9663-1 (ISBN)
Description
The cult of the Duce is the first book to explore systematically the personality cult of the Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. It examines the factors which informed the cult and looks in detail at its many manifestations in the visual arts, architecture, political spectacle and the media. The conviction that Mussolini was an exceptional individual first became dogma among Fascists and then was communicated to the people at large. Intellectuals and artists helped fashion the idea of him as a new Caesar while the modern media of press, photography, cinema and radio aggrandised his every public act. The book considers the way in which Italians experienced the personality cult and analyses its controversial resonances in the postwar period.
Academics and students with interests in Italian and European history and politics will find the volume indispensable to an understanding of Fascism, Italian society and culture, and modern political leadership.
Among the contributions is an Afterword by Mussolini's leading biographer, R.J.B. Bosworth. -- .
Academics and students with interests in Italian and European history and politics will find the volume indispensable to an understanding of Fascism, Italian society and culture, and modern political leadership.
Among the contributions is an Afterword by Mussolini's leading biographer, R.J.B. Bosworth. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Halftones, black & white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
456 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-9663-1 (9780719096631)
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Persons
Stephen Gundle is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick
Christopher Duggan is Professor of Modern Italian History at the University of Reading
Giuliana Pieri is Reader in Italian and the Visual Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London -- .
Christopher Duggan is Professor of Modern Italian History at the University of Reading
Giuliana Pieri is Reader in Italian and the Visual Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London -- .
Content
Introduction - Stephen Gundle, Christopher Duggan and Giuliana Pieri
1. Political cults in liberal Italy, 1861-1922 - Christopher Duggan
2. The propagation of the cult of the Duce, 1925-26 - Christopher Duggan
3. Margherita Sarfatti and the invention of the Duce - Simona Storchi
4. Sanity from a lunatic asylum: Ida Dalser's threat to Mussolini's image - Daniela Baratieri
5. Mass culture and the cult of personality - Stephen Gundle
6. A town for the cult of the Duce: Predappio as a site of pilgrimage - Sofia Serenelli
7. Mussolini's appearances in the regions - Stephen Gundle
8. The internalisation of the cult of the Duce: the evidence of diaries and letters - Christopher Duggan
9. Mussolini and the Italian Empire, 1935-41 - Giuseppe Finaldi
10. Portraits of the Duce - Giuliana Pieri
11. Photographing Mussolini - Alessandra Antola
12. Mussolini as monument: the equestrian statue of the Duce at the Littoriale stadium in Bologna - Simona Storchi
13. Mussolini and the city of Rome - Eugene Pooley
14. The destiny of the art and artefacts - Giuliana Pieri
15. The aftermath of the Mussolini cult: history, nostalgia and popular culture - Stephen Gundle
16. Mussolini and postwar Italian television - Vanessa Roghi
Afterword - R.J.B. Bosworth
Notes on contributors
Index -- .
1. Political cults in liberal Italy, 1861-1922 - Christopher Duggan
2. The propagation of the cult of the Duce, 1925-26 - Christopher Duggan
3. Margherita Sarfatti and the invention of the Duce - Simona Storchi
4. Sanity from a lunatic asylum: Ida Dalser's threat to Mussolini's image - Daniela Baratieri
5. Mass culture and the cult of personality - Stephen Gundle
6. A town for the cult of the Duce: Predappio as a site of pilgrimage - Sofia Serenelli
7. Mussolini's appearances in the regions - Stephen Gundle
8. The internalisation of the cult of the Duce: the evidence of diaries and letters - Christopher Duggan
9. Mussolini and the Italian Empire, 1935-41 - Giuseppe Finaldi
10. Portraits of the Duce - Giuliana Pieri
11. Photographing Mussolini - Alessandra Antola
12. Mussolini as monument: the equestrian statue of the Duce at the Littoriale stadium in Bologna - Simona Storchi
13. Mussolini and the city of Rome - Eugene Pooley
14. The destiny of the art and artefacts - Giuliana Pieri
15. The aftermath of the Mussolini cult: history, nostalgia and popular culture - Stephen Gundle
16. Mussolini and postwar Italian television - Vanessa Roghi
Afterword - R.J.B. Bosworth
Notes on contributors
Index -- .