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"Ce panorama de la vie culturelle française sous l'Occupation revient sur le temps des expositions qui répandent la propagande nazie, sur les productions cinématographiques avec 220 films en 4 ans, malgré le double contrôle vichyssois et allemand. La radiodiffusion, acquise à Vichy, incite au développement d'émissions clandestines, la littérature interdit les auteurs juifs".

Fascism and culture --- Fascisme et culture --- History --- Histoire --- France --- Social aspects --- Intellectual life --- Aspect social --- Vie intellectuelle --- Social aspects.

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Focusing on both ritual and mass-visual representations of history in 1920s and 1930s Italy, The Historic Imaginary unveils how Italian Fascism sought to institutionalize a modernist culture of history. The study takes a new historicist and microhistorical approach to cultural-intellectual history, integrating theoretical tools of analysis acquired from visual-cultural studies, art history, linguistics, and reception theory in a sophisticated examination of visual modes of historical representation - from commemorations to monuments to exhibitions and mass-media spanning the entire period of the Italian-fascist regime. Claudio Fogu argues that the fascist historic imaginary was intellectually rooted in the actualist philosophy of history elaborated by Giovanni Gentile, culturally grounded in Latin-Catholic rhetorical codes, and aimed at overcoming both Marxist and liberal conceptions of the relationship between historical agency, representation, and consciousness. The book further proposes that this modernist vision of history was a core element of fascist ideology, encapsulated by the famous Mussolinian motto that "fascism makes history rather than writing it," and that its institutionalization constituted a key point of intersection between the fascist aesthetization and sacralization of politics. The author finally claims that his study of fascist historic culture opens the way to an understanding and re-evaluation of the historical relationship between the modernist critique of historical consciousness and the rise of post-modernist forms of temporality.

Fascism and culture --- Fascism --- History --- Historiography --- History in art --- Fascisme et culture --- Fascisme --- Histoire dans l'art --- Historiographie --- Histoire --- Italy --- Italie --- Civilization --- Civilisation --- Historiography.

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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.

Aesthetics, Italian --- Esthétique italienne --- Fascism and culture --- Fascism --- Italy --- Politics and government --- Fascisme --- Fascisme et culture --- Italie --- Politique et gouvernement

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"The year 1932, the tenth anniversary of Mussolini's March on Rome, was fascism's Decennale. Commemorating Italian fascism's seizure of power, the Decennale was celebrated by the regime in a deliberate attempt to radicalize the original movement and develop it into an imperial and racist regime. In Mussolini's Decennale, Antonio Morena explores a cross-section of Italian culture during the Decennale. Studying literature, speeches, documentaries, films, textbooks, and the 1932 Exhibition, he discusses how the regime, its patrons, and even its critics all appropriated the historical events of 1922 for their political advantage. Positioning the 1932 anniversary celebrations as the crux of the fascist transition from conservatism to totalitarianism, Mussolini's Decennale broadens our understanding of fascist ideology, cultural politics, and Realpolitik."--Publisher's website.

Fascism and culture --- Fascism --- Fascisme et culture --- Fascisme --- History --- Histoire --- 1900 - 1999 --- Italy --- Italie --- Intellectual life --- Politics and government --- Vie intellectuelle --- Politique et gouvernement

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Anthroposophy. --- National socialism and occultism. --- Fascism and culture --- Racism. --- Nazisme et occultisme --- Fascisme et culture --- Racisme --- Steiner, Rudolf, --- Influence. --- Germany --- Italy --- Allemagne --- Italie --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement