LEADER 02845nam 22005894a 450 001 9910823341203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a979-88-908706-5-0 010 $a0-8078-6122-7 035 $a(CKB)111087027917614 035 $a(EBL)413220 035 $a(OCoLC)476236288 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000138536 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11146675 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000138536 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10100733 035 $a(PQKB)10110034 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC413220 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087027917614 100 $a20020607d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDictators, democracy, and American public culture $eenvisioning the totalitarian enemy, 1920s-1950s /$fBenjamin L. Alpers 210 $aChapel Hill $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (417 p.) 225 1 $aCultural studies of the United States 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8078-2750-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [347]-379) and index. 327 $aThe romance of a dictator : dictatorship in American public culture, 1920s-1935 -- The totalitarian state : modern dictatorship as a new form of government, 1920s-1935 -- The disappearing dictator : declining regard for dictators amid growing fears of dictatorship, 1936-1941 -- The audience itself is the drama : dictatorship and the regimented crowd, 1936-1941 -- Dictator isms and our democracy : the rise of totalitarianism, 1936-1941 -- This is the army : the problem of the military in a democracy, 1941-1945 -- Here is Germany : understanding the Nazi enemy, 1941-1945 -- The battle of Russia : the Russian people, communism, and totalitarianism, 1941-1945 -- A boot stamping on a human face--forever : totalitarianism as nightmare in postwar America. 330 $aFocusing on portrayals of European dictatorships in US films, magazine and newspaper articles, books, plays, speeches and other texts, this study traces changing American understandings of dictatorship from the late 1920's through to the early years of the Cold War. 410 0$aCultural studies of the United States. 606 $aDictatorship 606 $aDemocracy 606 $aMass media$zUnited States$xInfluence 606 $aPublic opinion$zUnited States 615 0$aDictatorship. 615 0$aDemocracy. 615 0$aMass media$xInfluence. 615 0$aPublic opinion 676 $a321.9 700 $aAlpers$b Benjamin Leontief$f1965-$01758880 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823341203321 996 $aDictators, democracy, and American public culture$94197172 997 $aUNINA