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By Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Ruth Ben-Ghiat's cutting edge cultural historical past of Mussolini's dictatorship is a provocative dialogue of the meanings of modernity in interwar Italy. Eloquent, pathbreaking, and deft in its use of a huge diversity of fabrics, this paintings argues that fascism appealed to many Italian intellectuals as a brand new version of modernity that may get to the bottom of the modern ecu challenge in addition to long-standing difficulties of the nationwide prior. Ben-Ghiat exhibits that-at a time of fears over the erosion of nationwide and social identities-Mussolini offered fascism as a stream that will enable fiscal improvement with out damage to social limitations and nationwide traditions. She demonstrates that even though the regime principally failed in its makes an attempt to remake Italians as paragons of a extraordinarily fascist version of mass society, two decades of fascism did modify the panorama of Italian cultural lifestyles. between more youthful intellectuals specifically, the dictatorship left a legacy of practices and attitudes that frequently persevered less than various political rubrics after 1945. Illustrations: 17 b/w images
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73 Maccari’s alarmist tone reflected the enormous popular appeal America had in fascist Italy as a symbol of glamour and freedom from tradition. Known above all for its cinema, America functioned in the interwar period as a giant screen upon which Italians projected their fears and fantasies about consumerism, sexual emancipation, and other developments associated with mass society. ” 74 Other Europeans felt similarly divided. Many French intellectuals saw America’s faults— disrespect for (French) traditions, small-scale economies, and individual eccentricities—as the source of its strength as a financial power, and few refused to see the films of Charlot, no matter what they said publicly about American cinematic imperialism.
72 For many other intellectuals, though, capitalist America, not communist Russia, formed the biggest threat to the survival of Italian institutions and ways of life. As Maccari warned his peers in Il Selvaggio, Americans relied not on political propaganda but on the insidious lures of mass culture to convince other nations to follow their path: “Today’s enemy is unarmed. . He enters into your house via newspapers, photographs, and books that diffuse his mentality. Look around you, Italians: and you’ll see Americanism 40 / Toward a Fascist Culture all around you.
Second was Mussolini’s need to keep fascism inclusive enough to accommodate the agendas of his disparate group of supporters. The movement thus emerged in the press as an antidogmatic authoritarianism, and the Duce reiterated his commitment to creative autonomy when pressed to give an opinion on the function of art in his state. The repressive policy Toward a Fascist Culture / 21 measures that accompanied this rhetoric, however, made clear that Mussolini’s “tolerance” was the fruit of political pragmatism.