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Bertellini Giorgio |
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The Divo and the Duce : Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America / / Giorgio Bertellini |
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Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2019] |
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©2019 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xv, 309 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Cinema Cultures in Contact ; ; 1 |
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Disciplina |
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Celebrities in mass media |
Communication in politics |
Mass media and publicity |
Motion picture industry - United States - History - 20th century |
Publicity - United States - History - 20th century |
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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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