Overview
- Offers the first account of the work of the photographers, both official and freelance, who contributed to the forging of Mussolini's image
- Departs from the practice of using photographs purely for illustration and places them instead at the centre of the analysis
- Explores the photographic image in the socio-political context of the time and culture of Italy between the two world wars
Part of the book series: Italian and Italian American Studies (IIAS)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Setting the Scene
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Front Matter
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Modalities
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Back Matter
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About this book
This pioneering book offers the first account of the work of the photographers, both official and freelance, who contributed to the forging of Mussolini's image. It departs from the practice of using photographs purely for illustration and places them instead at the centre of the analysis. Throughout the 1930s photographs of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini were chosen with much care by the regime. They were deployed to highlight those physical traits - the piercing eyes, protruding jaw, shaved head - that were meant to evoke the Duce's strength, determination and innate sense of leadership in the mind of his contemporaries. The chapters in this volume explore the photographic image in the socio-political context of the time and shows how it was a significant contributor to the development of Italian mass culture between the two world wars.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Photographing Mussolini
Book Subtitle: The Making of a Political Icon
Authors: Alessandra Antola Swan
Series Title: Italian and Italian American Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56506-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56505-3Published: 11 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56508-4Published: 12 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56506-0Published: 10 December 2020
Series ISSN: 2635-2931
Series E-ISSN: 2635-294X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 393
Number of Illustrations: 62 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Italy, Political History, Photography, Political Communication