The Divo and the Duce Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America
In the climate of isolationism, nativism, democratic expansion of civic rights, and consumerism that America experienced after the First World War, Italian-born movie star Rudolph Valentino and Italy's dictator, Benito Mussolini, became surprisingly appealing emblems of authoritarian male power...
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Oakland
University of California Press
2019
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