The historic imaginary
Subtitle: politics of history in Fascist Italy
By: Claudio Fogu.
Series: Toronto Italian studies
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Fascism and culture -- Italy -- History -- 20th century.; Fascism -- Italy -- History -- 20th century.; Fascism -- Italy -- Historiography.; Italy -- History -- 1922-1945 -- Historiography.
Description: "Focusing on 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 and monuments to exhibitions and mass media - spanning the entire period of the Italian fascist regime."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.