Making the fascist self
Subtitle: the political culture of interwar Italy
By: Mabel Berezin.
Series: The Wilder House series in politics, history, and culture
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Ithaca, [N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945 -- Influence; Fascism -- Italy -- History; Fascism and culture -- Italy -- History; Symbolism in politics -- Italy -- History; Italy -- Politics and government -- 1922-1945
Description: In her examination of the culture of Italian fascism, Mabel Berezin focuses on how Mussolini's regime consciously constructed a nonliberal public sphere to support its political aims. Fascism stresses form over content, she believes, and the regime tried to build its political support through the careful construction and manipulation of public spectacles or rituals such as parades, commemoration ceremonies, and holiday festivities.

The fascists believed they could rely on the motivating power of spectacle and experiential symbols.
Notes: Includes index.