LEADER 02825oam 2200457 450 001 9910427859703321 005 20230823002500.0 010 $a3-030-56506-8 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-56506-0 035 $a(CKB)4100000011645280 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6424337 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-56506-0 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011645280 100 $a20210602d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPhotographing Mussolini $ethe making of a political icon /$fAlessandra Antola Swan 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cSpringer :$cPalgrave Macmillan,$d[2020] 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (XX, 393 p. 102 illus., 40 illus. in color.) 225 1 $aItalian and Italian American Studies,$x2635-2931 311 $a3-030-56505-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Introduction -- Part I: Setting the Scene -- 2. The photograph as a source and agent of history -- 3. Images in politics before Mussolini -- Part II: Production -- 4. The image makers of the Duce -- 5. The corporate image: Istituto Luce -- 6. The press-image: photojournalists and agencies -- 7. The aesthetic image: Ghitta Carell -- Part III: Audiencing -- 8. The visual presence of the Duce -- 9. Mussolini?s early photographs -- 10. Mussolini?s photogenic charisma -- 11. The emotional appeal -- 12. Marketing Mussolini -- 13. Conclusion. 330 $aThis pioneering book offers the first account of the work of the photographers, both official and freelance, who contributed to the forging of Mussolini's image. It departs from the practice of using photographs purely for illustration and places them instead at the centre of the analysis. Throughout the 1930s photographs of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini were chosen with much care by the regime. They were deployed to highlight those physical traits - the piercing eyes, protruding jaw, shaved head - that were meant to evoke the Duce's strength, determination and innate sense of leadership in the mind of his contemporaries. The chapters in this volume explore the photographic image in the socio-political context of the time and shows how it was a significant contributor to the development of Italian mass culture between the two world wars. 410 0$aItalian and Italian American Studies,$x2635-2931 606 $aPortrait photography 615 0$aPortrait photography. 676 $a945.091092 700 $aSwan$b Alessandra Antola$0992673 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910427859703321 996 $aPhotographing Mussolini$92273097 997 $aUNINA