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The Divo and the Duce : Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America / Giorgio Bertellini.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Cinema Cultures in Contact ; 1Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520972179
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.52 23
LOC classification:
  • HM1226
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Nothing Like Going to an Authority!" -- Part One. Power and Persuasion -- Part Two. The Divo, or the Governance of Romance -- Part Three. The Duce, or the Romance of Undemocratic Governing -- Conclusions -- Archival Sources -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Selected Primary Sources -- Index
Title is part of eBook package: EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2019Title is part of eBook package: EBOOK PACKAGE Arts, Architecture and Design 2019 EnglishTitle is part of eBook package: EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 EnglishTitle is part of eBook package: EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019Title is part of eBook package: UC Press eBook-Package 2019Title is part of eBook package: University of California Press 2019Title is part of eBook package: University of California Press Frontlist 2019Summary: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the post-World War I American climate of isolationism, nativism, democratic expansion of civic rights, and consumerism, Italian-born star Rodolfo Valentino and Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini became surprising paragons of authoritarian male power and mass appeal. Drawing on extensive archival research in the United States and Italy, Giorgio Bertellini's work shows how their popularity, both political and erotic, largely depended on the efforts of public opinion managers, including publicists, journalists, and even ambassadors. Beyond the democratic celebrations of the Jazz Age, the promotion of their charismatic masculinity through spectacle and press coverage inaugurated the now-familiar convergence of popular celebrity and political authority. This is the first volume in the new Cinema Cultures in Contact series, coedited by Giorgio Bertellini, Richard Abel, and Matthew Solomon. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)-a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: openmonographs.org.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Nothing Like Going to an Authority!" -- Part One. Power and Persuasion -- Part Two. The Divo, or the Governance of Romance -- Part Three. The Duce, or the Romance of Undemocratic Governing -- Conclusions -- Archival Sources -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Selected Primary Sources -- Index

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the post-World War I American climate of isolationism, nativism, democratic expansion of civic rights, and consumerism, Italian-born star Rodolfo Valentino and Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini became surprising paragons of authoritarian male power and mass appeal. Drawing on extensive archival research in the United States and Italy, Giorgio Bertellini's work shows how their popularity, both political and erotic, largely depended on the efforts of public opinion managers, including publicists, journalists, and even ambassadors. Beyond the democratic celebrations of the Jazz Age, the promotion of their charismatic masculinity through spectacle and press coverage inaugurated the now-familiar convergence of popular celebrity and political authority. This is the first volume in the new Cinema Cultures in Contact series, coedited by Giorgio Bertellini, Richard Abel, and Matthew Solomon. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)-a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: openmonographs.org.

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