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UNINA9910823341203321 |
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Autore |
Alpers Benjamin L |
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Dictators, democracy, and American public culture : envisioning the totalitarian enemy, 1920s-1950s |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, 2003 |
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ISBN |
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979-88-908706-5-0 |
0-8078-6122-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (417 p.) |
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Collana |
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Cultural Studies of the United States |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Democracy |
Dictatorship |
Mass media |
Public opinion |
Political Science |
Social Science |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Introduction; 1.The Romance of a Dictator: Dictatorship in American Public Culture, 1920's-1935; 2. The Totalitarian State: Modern Dictatorship as a New Form of Government, 1920's–1935; 3. The Disappearing Dictator: Declining Regard for Dictators Amid Growing Fears of Dictatorship, 1936-1941; 4. The Audience Itself is Drama: Dictatorship and the Regimented Crowd, 1936-1941; 5. Dictatorisms and Our Democracy: The Rise of Totalitarianism, 1936-1941; 6. This is the Army: The Problem of the Military in a Democracy, 1941-1945; 7. Here is Germany: Understanding the Nazi Enemy, 1941-1945 |
8. The Battle of Russia: The Russian People, Communism, and Totalitarianism, 1941-19459. A Boot Stamping on a Human Face--Forever: Totalitarianism as a Nightmare in Postwar America; Notes; Bibliography; Index; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Focusing on portrayals of European dictatorships in US films, magazine and newspaper articles, books, plays, speeches and other texts, this |
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study traces changing American understandings of dictatorship from the late 1920's through to the early years of the Cold War. |
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