This collection of essays brings Fellini criticism up to date, employing a range of recent critical filters, including semiotic, psychoanalytical, feminist and deconstructionist.
This text provides an analysis of the political life of the major Italian philosopher and literary figure Benedetto Croce. Rizi considers Croce's contribution to the struggle against fascism and demostrates that Croce's anti-fascist resistance was not passive, as most critics have argued.
Providing a wealth of factual and interpretative information about Germany between 1918 and 1945, Tim Kirk sets the Hitler years in their wider context, to include the Weimar Republic and the rise of Nazism, as well as the Third Reich itself. In addition to political chronologies and anatomies of the Nazi party and the police state, there is detailed information on economy, society and culture; diplomacy, rearmament and war; and racial politics and the Holocaust. Biographies, glossary and a...
Exploring the nature of Nazi family ideology, this book provides an overview of various aspects of Nazi family policy, including the impact of eugenics upon population policy and issues such as marriage, divorce, contraception, abortion and welfare measures.
This work presents a concise introduction to the phenomenon of Italian fascism and its impact. The author balances an up-to-date re-evaluation of political, diplomatic and military developments with a full assessment of the more neglected domestic and cultural dimensions of the subject.
A comprehensive analysis of Nazi film propaganda in its political, social and economic contexts. It considers more than 100 films, identifying those aspects of Nazi ideology that were concealed in the framework of popular entertainment under the direction of Joseph Goebbels, Propaganda Minister.
Analyzes the attitudes and policies of the Nazi leadership towards the German working class. This book argues that the regime did not securely integrate the working class and was thus less successful in imposing mass economic sacrifices in the interests of forced rearmament.
Discussion of the history of European Jewry, anti-semitism, the rise and fall of Nazism and fascism, World War II and post-war implications of the Holocaust, is followed by a dictionary of terms, culled from many primary and secondary sources in a range of languages, with graphs, charts and tables.