Title: The culture of fascism : visions of the Far Right in Britain /
Authors: Gottlieb, Julie V.; Linehan, Thomas P.
Publisher: I.B. Tauris,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Fascism and culture Great Britain History.; Fascism Great Britain History.; Fascism and art Great Britain History.
Abstract: "The history and ideologies of the Far Right in Britain have been well documented, but there has been little understanding of the movement's cultural foundations. This text explores the cultural history of fascism and the Far Right and mines a seam of intense interest for both academics and students, as well as for the general reader. The book demonstrates that British fascism is essentially not just a political movement, but one that has as its goal the establishment of an all-embracing fascist culture in Britain. The contributions cover film, theatre, music, literature, the visual arts and the mass media. Striking examples of the material that they examine include fascist marching songs, "Aryan music", the creation of Mosley as a "matinee idol", even "fascist science", the cult of the "New Fascist Man" and fascist "masculinity" and "feminity". The authors demonstrate the persistence of the Far Right cultural forms from Mosley's British Union of Fascists within the present National Front and British National Party."--Pub. desc.
Contents: Women and the nation : the right and projections of feminized political images in Great Britain, 1900-18 / Matthew Hendley -- Reactionary spectatorship : British fascists and cinema in inter-war Britain / Thomas P. Linehan -- 'This fortress built against infection' : the BUF vision of Britain's theatrical and musical renaissance / Roger Griffin -- The developing British fascist interpretation of race, culture and evolution / Richard Thurlow -- Britain's new fascist men: the aestheticization of brutality in British fascist propaganda / Julie V. Gottlieb -- The black shirt in Britain : the meanings and functions of political uniform / Philip M. Coupland -- The Blackshirts at Belle Vue : fascist theatre at a north-west pleasure ground / Helen Pussard -- Purifying the nation : critiques of cultural decadence and decline in British neo-fascist ideology / Steven Woodbridge -- Anglo-Italian fascist solidarity? : the shift from Italophilia to Naziphilia in the BUF / Claudia Baldoli -- Another form of fascism : the cultural impact of the French 'radical Right' in Britain / Richard Griffiths -- The far Right and the back-to-the-land movement / Dan Stone.