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Winner of the 1998 Distinguished Scholarship Award of the Pacific Sociological Association.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
Narrative and Representation
Aesthetics and Politics
1. MUSSOLINI' S AESTHETIC POLITICS
The Politician as Artist
From Art to Violence
2. MUSSOLINI THE MYTH
Mussolini in the Culture of Personality
Mussolini and the Party
The Deification of Mussolini
3· THE POLITICS OF SYMBOLS: FROM CONTENT TO FORM
The Myth of Rome
The Discourse on Style
4· BODILY ECONOMY: CORPORATIVISM AND CONSUMPTION
Disembodying the Body
Material! Consumption
Mimetic Economy
Spectacle and Desire
5· WAR AND MELODRAMA
The Politics of Land
The Politics of War
CONCLUSIONS
Notes
Bibliography
Photograph Credits
Index

About the Author

Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi is Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara.

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"An excellent contribution to the growing number of studies of Fascist political culture and public rituals."
*American Journal of Sociology*

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