LEADER 04242oam 2200709I 450 001 9910785939403321 005 20230803024711.0 010 $a1-283-71030-7 010 $a0-203-10196-0 010 $a1-136-23780-1 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203101964 035 $a(CKB)2670000000269399 035 $a(EBL)1047038 035 $a(OCoLC)817889718 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000757515 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12379230 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000757515 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10758961 035 $a(PQKB)10456424 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1047038 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1047038 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10617659 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL402280 035 $a(OCoLC)890674627 035 $a(OCoLC)1058231493 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB137506 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000269399 100 $a20180706d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAesthetic modernism and masculinity in fascist Italy /$fJohn Champagne 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (233 p.) 225 0 $aPopular culture and world politics 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-80815-6 311 $a0-415-52862-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 198-212) and index. 327 $aFront 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 330 $a"Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy is an interdisciplinary historical re-reading of a series of representative texts that complicate our current understanding of the portrayal of masculinity in the Italian fascist era. Examining paintings, films, music and literature in light of some of the ideological and material contradictions that animated the regime, it argues that fascist masculinity was itself highly contradictory. It brings to the fore works that have tended to be under-studied, and argues that, while fascist inclusive strategies of patronage worked to bind artists to the regime, an official policy of non-interference may inadvertently have opened up a space whereby the arts expressed a more complicated and contestatory view of masculinity than the one proffered by kitsch photos of a bare-chested Mussolini skiing. Champagne seeks to evaluate how the aesthetic analysis of the artifacts explored offer a more sophisticated and nuanced understanding of what world politics is, what is at stake when something like 'masculinity' is rendered as being an element of world politics, and how such an understanding differs from more orthodox 'cultural' analyses common to international relations.Providing a significant contribution to understandings of representations of masculinities in modernist art, this work will be of great interest to students and scholars of gender studies, queer studies, political science, Italian studies and art history. "--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aPopular Culture and World Politics 606 $aFascism and art$zItaly$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMasculinity in art 606 $aModernism (Aesthetics)$zItaly 606 $aArts, Italian$y20th century 615 0$aFascism and art$xHistory 615 0$aMasculinity in art. 615 0$aModernism (Aesthetics) 615 0$aArts, Italian 676 $a700.4/52110945 686 $aPOL000000$2bisacsh 700 $aChampagne$b John.$0884628 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785939403321 996 $aAesthetic modernism and masculinity in fascist Italy$93675645 997 $aUNINA