Photographing Mussolini : The Making of a Political Icon Paperback / softback
by Alessandra Antola Swan
Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies series
Paperback / softback
Description
This pioneering book offers the first account of the work of the photographers, both official and freelance, who contributed to the forging of Mussolini's image.
It departs from the practice of using photographs purely for illustration and places them instead at the centre of the analysis.
Throughout the 1930s photographs of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini were chosen with much care by the regime.
They were deployed to highlight those physical traits - the piercing eyes, protruding jaw, shaved head - that were meant to evoke the Duce's strength, determination and innate sense of leadership in the mind of his contemporaries. The chapters in this volume explore the photographic image in the socio-political context of the time and shows how it was a significant contributor to the development of Italian mass culture between the two world wars.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:393 pages, 40 Illustrations, color; 62 Illustrations, black and white; XX, 393 p. 102 illus., 40 ill
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:12/12/2021
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- ISBN:9783030565084
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:393 pages, 40 Illustrations, color; 62 Illustrations, black and white; XX, 393 p. 102 illus., 40 ill
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:12/12/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9783030565084
