The Divo and the Duce : Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America

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Tác giả: Giorgio Bertellini

Ngôn ngữ: eng

ISBN-13: 978-0520301368

ISBN-10: luminos.62

Ký hiệu phân loại: 305.52 +Upper class

Thông tin xuất bản: Oakland University of California Press 2019

Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (329 p.)

Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở

ID: 177735

In the climate of isolationism, nativism, democratic expansion of civic rights, and consumerism that America experienced after the First World War, Italian-born movie star Rudolph Valentino and Italy's dictator, Benito Mussolini, became surprisingly appealing emblems of authoritarian male power. Drawing on extensive research in the United States and Italy, Bertellini's work shows how the political and erotic popularity of Valentino, the Divo, and Mussolini, the Duce, was not just the result of spontaneous popular enthusiasm. Instead, Bertellini argues, it also depended on the efforts of public opinion managers, including publicists, journalists, and even ambassadors. As such, the fame of the Divo and the Duce reveals both the converging publicity work undertaken in Hollywood and Washington since the Great War and the extent to which their foreignness was put to work in managing postwar anxieties about democratic governance. Beyond the democratic celebrations of the Jazz Age, this promotion of charismatic masculinity, while short-lived, inaugurated the now-familiar convergence of popular celebrity and political authority.
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