LEADER 04097nam 2200721 450 001 9910456331103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-99437-5 010 $a9786611994372 010 $a1-4426-8144-6 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442681446 035 $a(CKB)2430000000001869 035 $a(EBL)3255231 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000298657 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11226383 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000298657 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10344398 035 $a(PQKB)10028951 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600960 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3255231 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672073 035 $a(DE-B1597)464978 035 $a(OCoLC)1013947831 035 $a(OCoLC)944177277 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442681446 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672073 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257757 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL199437 035 $a(OCoLC)958581290 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000001869 100 $a20160914h20032003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe historic imaginary $epolitics of history in Fascist Italy /$fClaudio Fogu 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2003. 210 4$dİ2003 215 $a1 online resource (280 p.) 225 0 $aToronto Italian Studies 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8020-8764-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. History Belongs to the Present -- $t2. Il Duce Taumaturgo -- $t3. Historic Spectacle -- $t4. The Historic Imaginary and the Mass Media -- $t5. The Contest of Exhibitions -- $t6. Fascist Historic Culture -- $tEpilogue -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aFocusing on both ritual and mass-visual representations of history in 1920s and 1930s Italy, The Historic Imaginary unveils how Italian Fascism sought to institutionalize a modernist culture of history. The study takes a new historicist and microhistorical approach to cultural-intellectual history, integrating theoretical tools of analysis acquired from visual-cultural studies, art history, linguistics, and reception theory in a sophisticated examination of visual modes of historical representation ? from commemorations to monuments to exhibitions and mass-media ? spanning the entire period of the Italian-fascist regime.Claudio Fogu argues that the fascist historic imaginary was intellectually rooted in the actualist philosophy of history elaborated by Giovanni Gentile, culturally grounded in Latin-Catholic rhetorical codes, and aimed at overcoming both Marxist and liberal conceptions of the relationship between historical agency, representation, and consciousness. The book further proposes that this modernist vision of history was a core element of fascist ideology, encapsulated by the famous Mussolinian motto that "fascism makes history rather than writing it," and that its institutionalization constituted a key point of intersection between the fascist aesthetization and sacralization of politics. The author finally claims that his study of fascist historic culture opens the way to an understanding and re-evaluation of the historical relationship between the modernist critique of historical consciousness and the rise of post-modernist forms of temporality. 606 $aFascism and culture$zItaly$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aFascism$zItaly$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aFascism$zItaly$xHistoriography 607 $aItaly$xHistory$y1922-1945$xHistoriography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFascism and culture$xHistory 615 0$aFascism$xHistory 615 0$aFascism$xHistoriography. 676 $a945.091 700 $aFogu$b Claudio$f1963-$0308102 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456331103321 996 $aThe historic imaginary$92469129 997 $aUNINA