Cult of the Duce - Mussolini and the Italians

"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 Caesarwhile 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."--Page [4] of cover.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Duggan Gundle
• Assisted by: Christopher Duggan (Editor), Stephen Gundle (Editor), Giuliana Pieri (Editor), Pieri Giuliana (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2013
• EAN: 9780719088964
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8896-4
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Italy, Fascism & Nazism, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Far-right political ideologies and movements, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period)