...This chapter discusses the evolution of the Benito Mussolini regime's patronage structure and examines how Italians' critiques of foreign mass societies played a role in the definition of fascist models of modernity. Mussolini's 1927 Ascension Day speech clarified the larger goals that inspired...

...This chapter examines the ways in which literature participated in Benito Mussolini's regeneration campaign and in the creation of a distinctly Italian and fascist model of modernity. Certainly, not all Italian writers and critics accepted the regime's claim to represent the nation, and few...

...This chapter examines the ways in which the films participated in Benito Mussolini's regeneration campaign and in the creation of a distinctly Italian and fascist model of modernity. By 1933, films had replaced novels as the source of new models for youth. Fascist officials also recognized cinema's...

...This chapter examines how the colonial enterprise and racial measures of the regime of Italian leader Benito Mussolini were received by the intellectual class, and looks at the cultural effects of the Rome-Berlin Axis. It analyzes how the Ethiopian War and the events that followed it influenced...

...This chapter investigates how the regime of Italian leader Benito Mussolini depended on culture in order to assert itself as an international power after military debacles ended fascist hopes for political domination during World War II. It shows how young intellectuals such as Luchino Visconti...

...This chapter examines the attempts made by Benito Mussolini's regime to apply its “therapeutic” politics to young intellectuals and explores how generational tensions within the dictatorship found expression in conflicting visions of fascist modernity. Though Mussolini showed little interest...