Giorgio Bertellini 
The Divo and the Duce [EPUB ebook] 
Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America

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In the post–World War I American climate of isolationism, nativism, democratic expansion of civic rights, and consumerism, Italian-born star Rodolfo Valentino and Italy’s dictator Benito Mussolini became surprising paragons of authoritarian male power and mass appeal. Drawing on extensive archival research in the United States and Italy, Giorgio Bertellini’s work shows how their popularity, both political and erotic, largely depended on the efforts of public opinion managers, including publicists, journalists, and even ambassadors. Beyond the democratic celebrations of the Jazz Age, the promotion of their charismatic masculinity through spectacle and press coverage inaugurated the now-familiar convergence of popular celebrity and political authority.
This is the first volume in the new 
Cinema Cultures in Contact  series, coedited by Giorgio Bertellini, Richard Abel, and Matthew Solomon.
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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: “Nothing Like Going to an Authority!”
Part One. Power and Persuasion
1. Popular Sovereignty, Public Opinion, and the Presidency
2. Cultural Nationalism and Democracy’s Opinion Leaders
3. Wartime Film Stardom and Global Leadership
Part Two. The Divo, or the Governance of Romance
4. The Divo, New-Style Heavy
5. The Ballyhooed Art of Governing Romance
6. Stunts and Plebiscites
Part Three. The Duce, or the Romance of Undemocratic Governing
7. Promoting a Romantic Biography
8. National Leader, International Actor
Conclusions
Archival Sources
Abbreviations
Notes
Selected Primary Sources
Index

Despre autor

Giorgio Bertellini is Professor of Film and Media History at the University of Michigan. He is the author and editor of the award-winning volumes Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape, and the Picturesque and Italian Silent Cinema: A Reader.

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Limba Engleză ● Format EPUB ● Pagini 352 ● ISBN 9780520972179 ● Mărime fișier 8.7 MB ● Editura University of California Press ● Publicat 2019 ● Ediție 1 ● Descărcabil 24 luni ● Valută EUR ● ID 6817776 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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