04238oam 2200709I 450 991081864390332120240131153308.01-283-71030-70-203-10196-01-136-23780-110.4324/9780203101964 (CKB)2670000000269399(EBL)1047038(OCoLC)817889718(SSID)ssj0000757515(PQKBManifestationID)12379230(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000757515(PQKBWorkID)10758961(PQKB)10456424(MiAaPQ)EBC1047038(Au-PeEL)EBL1047038(CaPaEBR)ebr10617659(CaONFJC)MIL402280(OCoLC)890674627(OCoLC)1058231493(FINmELB)ELB137506(EXLCZ)99267000000026939920180706d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAesthetic modernism and masculinity in fascist Italy /John ChampagneLondon ;New York :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (233 p.)Popular culture and world politicsDescription based upon print version of record.1-138-80815-6 0-415-52862-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-212) and index.Front Cover; Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: beyond virility; 1 Fascism, modernism, and the contradictions of capitalism; 2 Pirandello fascista?: modernism and the theater of masculinity; 3 The dandy, the mystic, and the Tonalists: Italian modernistpainting and the male body; 4 "A glimpse through an interstice caught": fascism and MarioCastelnuovo-Tedesco's "Calamus" songs; 5 Giorgio Bassani and "Italian 'queers' of the 1930s"; Conclusion: "beyond" fascism?; Notes; Bibliography; Index"Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy is an interdisciplinary historical re-reading of a series of representative texts that complicate our current understanding of the portrayal of masculinity in the Italian fascist era. Examining paintings, films, music and literature in light of some of the ideological and material contradictions that animated the regime, it argues that fascist masculinity was itself highly contradictory. It brings to the fore works that have tended to be under-studied, and argues that, while fascist inclusive strategies of patronage worked to bind artists to the regime, an official policy of non-interference may inadvertently have opened up a space whereby the arts expressed a more complicated and contestatory view of masculinity than the one proffered by kitsch photos of a bare-chested Mussolini skiing. Champagne seeks to evaluate how the aesthetic analysis of the artifacts explored offer a more sophisticated and nuanced understanding of what world politics is, what is at stake when something like 'masculinity' is rendered as being an element of world politics, and how such an understanding differs from more orthodox 'cultural' analyses common to international relations.Providing a significant contribution to understandings of representations of masculinities in modernist art, this work will be of great interest to students and scholars of gender studies, queer studies, political science, Italian studies and art history. "--Provided by publisher.Popular Culture and World PoliticsFascism and artItalyHistory20th centuryMasculinity in artModernism (Aesthetics)ItalyArts, Italian20th centuryFascism and artHistoryMasculinity in art.Modernism (Aesthetics)Arts, Italian700.4/52110945POL000000bisacshChampagne John.884628MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818643903321Aesthetic modernism and masculinity in fascist Italy4010536UNINA