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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970419403321

Autore

Alpers Benjamin Leontief <1965->

Titolo

Dictators, democracy, and American public culture : envisioning the totalitarian enemy, 1920s-1950s / / Benjamin L. Alpers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2003

ISBN

9798890870650

0807827509

0807854166

9780807861226

0807861227

Descrizione fisica

x, 405p ; ; 25cm

Collana

Cultural studies of the United States

Disciplina

321.9

Soggetti

Dictatorship

Democracy

Mass media - United States - Influence

Public opinion - United States

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. [347]-379) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The romance of a dictator : dictatorship in American public culture, 1920s-1935 -- The totalitarian state : modern dictatorship as a new form of government, 1920s-1935 -- The disappearing dictator : declining regard for dictators amid growing fears of dictatorship, 1936-1941 -- The audience itself is the drama : dictatorship and the regimented crowd, 1936-1941 -- Dictator isms and our democracy : the rise of totalitarianism, 1936-1941 -- This is the army : the problem of the military in a democracy, 1941-1945 -- Here is Germany : understanding the Nazi enemy, 1941-1945 -- The battle of Russia : the Russian people, communism, and totalitarianism, 1941-1945 -- A boot stamping on a human face--forever : totalitarianism as nightmare in postwar America.

Sommario/riassunto

Focusing on portrayals of European dictatorships in US films, magazine and newspaper articles, books, plays, speeches and other texts, this study traces changing American understandings of dictatorship from the late 1920's through to the early years of the Cold War.