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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784367003321

Autore

Pinkus Karen

Titolo

Bodily regimes [[electronic resource] ] : Italian advertising under fascism / / Karen Pinkus

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1995

ISBN

0-8166-8633-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Disciplina

659.1

Soggetti

Advertising - Italy - History

Propaganda - Italy - History

Human figure in art

Commercial art - Italy - History

Fascism and art - Italy - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-266) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; A Note on Pictorial Sources; Acknowledgments; 1 The Body and the Market; 2 Selling the Black Body: Advertising and the African Campaigns; 3 The Fascist Body as Producer and Consumer; 4 The Body and Its Armors; 5 The Body Disappears: Negation, Toxicity, Annihilation; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A provocative reading of the use and manipulation of the body in advertising under Italian fascism, Bodily Regimes offers an enlightening look at the relationship between fascism and capitalism. It is unique in its focus on the intertwined relations of race, class, and gender in the construction of the Italian subject.