Fascist Spectacle

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 i...