The historic imaginary : politics of history in Fascist Italy
"Focusing on ritual and mass visual representations of history in 1920s and 1930s Italy, The Historic Imaginary unveils how Italian fascism sought to institutionalize a modernist culture of history. The study takes a new historicist and microhistorical approach to cultural-intellectual history, integrating theoretical tools of analysis acquired from visual-cultural studies, art history, linguistics, ...




