General Information

Author/Creator

Schnapp, Jeffrey T. (Jeffrey Thompson), 1954-

Language

English.

Published

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1996.

Physical Description

xviii, 234 p. : ill. ; 20 x 24 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

On an April evening in Florence in 1934, before twenty thousand spectators, the mass spectacle 18BL was presented, involving two thousand amateur actors, an air squadron, one infantry and cavalry brigade, fifty trucks, four field and machine gun batteries, ten field-radio stations, and six photoelectric units. However titanic its scale, 18BL's ambitions were even greater: to institute a revolutionary fascist theater of the future, a modern theatre of and for the masses that would end the crisis of the bourgeois theatre. This is the complete story of the event, a colossal failure to critics and spectators alike, which the fascist government took pains to expunge from the annals of the regime. The detailed reconstruction of these various aspects of 18BL serves as a springboard for a larger inquiry into the place of media, technology, and machinery in the fascist imagination, particularly in its links to fascist models of narrative, historiography, spectacle, and subjectivity.

Subjects

Subject

Pavolini, Alessandro, 1903-1945.

18 BL.

Fascism and theater > Italy.

Theater > Political aspects > Italy.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Jeffrey T. Schnapp.

Content

1. Two October revolutions -- 2. Staging the miracle of the corporative age -- 3. Theaters of masses for masses -- 4. The adventure of Mother Cartridge-Pounch -- 5. Mystical experiences, actualised and unactualised -- 6. Metallisation takes command -- 7. The dictator and the darchy -- 8. After the deluge.

Library Special Collection

The Roger Griffin ComFas Collection

ISBN

0804726078

0804726086

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	852/.912 SCH		General Stacks	-

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