04610 am 22008773u 450 991031193000332120200229105050.00-520-30136-610.1525/9780520972179(CKB)4100000007762235(DE-B1597)539988(OCoLC)1048014934(DE-B1597)9780520972179(ScCtBLL)c19c083e-1cba-497d-a2ba-7e7a06534a23(MiAaPQ)EBC6983801(Au-PeEL)EBL6983801(EXLCZ)99410000000776223520200229h20192019 fg engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Divo and the Duce Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America /Giorgio BertelliniBerkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2019]©20191 online resource (xv, 309 pages) illustrationsCinema Cultures in Contact ;10-520-97217-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- IndexA 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 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.Cinema cultures in contact ;1Celebrities in mass mediaCommunication in politicsMass media and publicityMotion picture industryUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPublicityUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticismbisacshambassadors.america.american climate.authoritarian.benito mussolini.charismatic masculinity.consumerism.democratic celebrations.democratic expansion of civil rights.dictator.isolationism.italian born star.italy.jazz age.journalists.male power.nativism.political popularity.post world war 1.public opinion.publicists.rodolfo valentino.united states.Celebrities in mass media.Communication in politics.Mass media and publicity.Motion picture industryHistoryPublicityHistoryPERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.305.52Bertellini Giorgio, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut611275DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910311930003321The Divo and the Duce2256086UNINA04207nam 22007092 450 991078182510332120151002020704.00-7486-7084-X1-281-25196-897866112519630-7486-2917-310.1515/9780748629176(CKB)1000000000485905(EBL)334884(OCoLC)476144769(SSID)ssj0000829022(PQKBManifestationID)11506212(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000829022(PQKBWorkID)10842863(PQKB)11069012(UkCbUP)CR9780748629176(StDuBDS)EDZ0000092652(MiAaPQ)EBC334884(Au-PeEL)EBL334884(CaPaEBR)ebr10221797(CaONFJC)MIL125196(DE-B1597)615597(DE-B1597)9780748629176(OCoLC)1302165354(EXLCZ)99100000000048590520130322d2007|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCinema and sensation French film and the art of transgression /Martine Beugnet[electronic resource]Edinburgh :Edinburgh University Press,2007.1 online resource (vi, 192 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).0-7486-4936-0 0-7486-2042-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-187) and index.Includes filmography.COVER; COPYRIGHT; Contents; Acknowledgements; Beginnings; CHAPTER 1 A 'Third Path'; CHAPTER 2 The Aesthetics of Sensation; CHAPTER 3 Film Bodies (Becomings and Embodiment); Epilogue; Bibliography; Selected Filmography; Index; This book looks at a much-debated phenomenon in contemporary cinema: the re-emergence of filmmaking practices (and, by extension, of theoretical approaches) that give precedence to cinema as the medium of the senses. France offers an intriguing case in point here. A specific sense of momentum comes from the release, in close succession, of a series of films that exemplify a characteristic awareness of cinema's sensory impact and transgressive nature: Adieu; A ma soeur; Baise-moi; Beau Travail; La Blessure; La Captive; Dans ma peau; Demonlover; L'Humanité; Flandres; L'Intrus; Les Invisibles; Lady Chatterley; Leçons de ténèbres; Romance; Sombre; Tiresia; Trouble Every Day; Twentynine Palms; Vendredi soir; La Vie nouvelle; Wild Side; Zidane, un portrait du XXIème siècle. These films, amongst others, typify a willingness to explore cinema's unique capacity to move us both viscerally and intellectually. Martine Beugnet focuses on the crucial and fertile overlaps that occur between experimental and mainstream cinema. Her book draws on the writings of the likes of Deleuze, Merleau-Ponty and Bataille, but first and foremost, she develops her arguments from the films themselves, from the comprehensive description of specific sequences, techniques and motifs which allows us to engage with the works as material events and as thinking processes. In turn, she demonstrates how the films, envisaged as forms of embodied thought, offer alternative ways of approaching those questions that are at the heart of today's most burning socio-cultural debates: from the growing supremacy of technology, to globalisation, exile and exclusion, these are the issues that appear embedded here in the very texture of images and sounds.Cinema & SensationSenses and sensation in motion picturesHuman body in motion picturesMotion picturesFranceSenses and sensation in motion pictures.Human body in motion pictures.Motion pictures791.430944AP 53950BSZrvkBeugnet Martine1158021UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910781825103321Cinema and sensation3815656UNINA