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Item Number: 120332
Title: Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy
Author: Champagne, John
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780415528627
Description: New York-London: Routledge, 2012. 24cm., hardcover, 221pp. illus. Contents: Fascist Art as Myth 1. Fascism, Modernism, and the Contradictions of Capitalism 2. Pirandello Fascista? 3. The Dandy, the Mystic, and the Tonalists: Italian Modernist Painting and the Male Body 4. "A Glimpse Through an Interstice Caught": Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's settings of Walt Whitman’s "Calamus" Poems 5. Italian "Queers" of the 1930s: the novels of Giorgio Bassani 6. The "Failure" of Italian Masculinity: Contemporary Cinema, Masculinity, and the Legacy of Neo-Realism. Summary: 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 artefacts 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 . (Popular Culture and World Politics)
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