Fascist Modernities
Italy, 1922-1945
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14807385 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cinzia Sartini Blum |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2/3 |
| Pages | 95 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922-1945, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, 2019 |
| Venue | South Central Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0743-6831 • E-ISSN: 1549-3377 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3189871 |
| OpenAlex | W2080959755 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
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
Decadence · Democracy · Dictatorship · Economic history · Modernity · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law
Mussolini's Theatre
Margherita Sarfatti entre Buenos Aires, Roma y Milán
The Iron Guard and the ‘Modern State’. Iron Guard Leaders Vasile Marin and Ion I. Moţa, and the ‘New European Order’
Dutch Face-ism. Portrait Photography and Völkisch Nationalism in the Netherlands
Studying Fascism in a Postfascist Age. From New Consensus to New Wave? 1
Colonial crossovers
Of Other Scapes
John Kitzmiller, Euro-American Difference, and the Cinema of the West
A Place in the Sun
The Concept that Came Out of the Cold
Producing the ideal fascist landscape
La Razza Ario-Mediterranea
Modernity Is Just Over There
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Italian Fascism’s empire cinema
Looking for Italy's public sphere
Impegno , national and transnational identities in Il Politecnico and Sud (1945–1947)
The particular kindness of friends
The invisible war on nature
The 'brutal force' of the mines
Description, appropriation, transformation
Race, technological modernity, and the Italo-Australian condition
Purezza e meticciato
Un'arte ancora in embrione’
New postgraduate research on Italian identities
Border regions and identity
Displaying Race and Exhibiting Empires in the 1930s
Fascist Colonialism
Images for Housework
The Decay of Sighing
Grounds for Reclamation
Response to Matteo Millan
Modernity’ and the Making of Social Order in Twentieth-Century Europe
The Institutionalisation of Squadrismo
The Ethics of Consent—Regime and People in the Historiographies of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
Imagining European Identity
Sacrificial Memory and Political Legitimacy in Postwar Italy
Foreign literature as poison
Domesticating the avant-garde in a nationalist era
Technology and geographical imaginations
Working in academia under authoritarian rule
The ‘Day of Wrath’ as Musico-Political Statement in Dallapiccola's Canti di Prigionia
The Anti-Jewishness of F. T. Marinetti
Nomos , Identity and Otherness
Rome's Singular Path to Modernism
Fulfilling the Fascist Lie
Topographies of Disease and Desire
Infinite Remoteness
On the Edge of Penal Colonies
Entrepreneurs and the State in the Italian Film Industry, 1919–1935
Opera in Postwar Venice
The Archaeology of Internment in Francoist Spain (1936–1952)
Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime
Festival Cities
Italy's Jews from Emancipation to Fascism
The Cambridge Companion to European Modernism
Modern/Moderne/Modernismus
On New Land a New Society
Active and Conscious Builders of Communism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |