1st Edition

Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy

By John Champagne Copyright 2013
232 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction: Beyond Virility, Chapter 1. Fascism, Modernism, and the Contradictions of Capitalism, Chapter 2. Pirandello Fascista? Modernism and The Theater of Masculinity Chapter 3. The Dandy, the Mystic, and the Tonalists: Italian Modernist Painting and the Male Body Chapter 4. “A Glimpse Through an Interstice Caught: Fascism and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedescos Calamus Songs” Chapter 5. Giorgio Bassani and Italian “Queers” of the 1930s” Conclusion: “Beyond” Fascism?

Biography

John Champagne is an Associate Professor of English at Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, and a Visiting Professor of Communications at John Cabot University, Rome. He writes on gender and sexuality in modern culture; a critic and novelist, he is the author of three previous books.

"...this is a compelling, rich, and provocative study that provides plenty of food for thought and invites further investigation in this vein. " Charlotte Rose, Universty of Birmingham, Modern Language Review