Fascist Modernities

Italy, 1922-1945

By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat

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Hardcover | 2 January 2001 | Edition Number 1

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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 regime largely failed in its attempts to remake Italians as paragons of a distinctly fascist model of mass society, twenty years of fascism did alter the landscape of Italian cultural life. Among younger intellectuals in particular, the dictatorship left a legacy of practices and attitudes that often continued under different political rubrics after 1945.

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"More than a history of Fascist culture, a richly documented and thorough chronicle of the relationship between the regime and culture."--"New York Review of Books

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List of Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Toward a Fascist Culture	p. 17
Politics and Patronage in Italian Fascist Culture	p. 20
Generational Politics and Fascist Aesthetics	p. 29
Anxieties of Influence	p. 33
In Search of Modernity: Italians Abroad, 1929-34	p. 37
Narrating the Nation	p. 46
Toward a New Italian Literature	p. 48
Critics and the Construction of Literary Identity	p. 51
The Realist Novel and the Search for Moral Change	p. 55
Fascist Literature and the Fiction of the Unpolitical	p. 61
The Ethnic as National: Alvaro's Alternative	p. 64
Envisioning Modernity	p. 70
Style and Identity: Creating the National Film	p. 74
Blasetti, Camerini, Matarazzo: Three Visions of a Different Modernity	p. 80
The Development of Fascist Film Policy, 1933-35	p. 88
Class Dismissed: Fascism's Politics of Youth	p. 93
Toward a Fascist Modernity: Three Voices for Change	p. 99
The Discipline of Revolution	p. 107
Conquest and Collaboration	p. 123
Fascist Modernity and Colonial Conquest	p. 125
Between Expansion and Autarchy: Italian Culture in the Axis Years	p. 131
Aryans and Others: The Fascist War against the Jews	p. 148
Politics and Identity in Fascist Youth Culture, 1936-39	p. 157
The Wars of Fascism	p. 171
A Culture of War, 1940-43	p. 174
Generations at War	p. 180
Other Italies, Other Modernities	p. 187
Epilogue	p. 202
Notes	p. 213
Bibliography	p. 277
Index	p. 305
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