Title: Making the fascist self
Subtitle: the political culture of interwar Italy
First published: 1997
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.
Subjects: Politics and government, Symbolism in politics, Influence, Fascism and culture, Fascism, History, Italy, politics and government, Mussolini, benito, 1883-1945
Places: Italy
People: Benito Mussolini (1883-1945)
Time periods: 1922-1945
LC classification: DG571 .B444 1997