The Divo and the Duce

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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المؤلف الرئيسي: Bertellini, Giorgio (auth)
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منشور في: University of California Press 2019
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