TOTalitarian ARTs : The Visual Arts, Fascism(s) and Mass-Society.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Totalitarian Environment: Spaces and Images -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Part II: Totalitarianism, Italian Cinema and Beyond -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six - Part I: From Tragedy to Myth -- Chapter Six - Part II: From Treatment to Farcical Finale -- Chapter Seven -- Part III: Totalitarian Aesthetics and Politics -- Chapter Eight -- Chapter Nine -- Chapter Ten -- Chapter Eleven -- Part IV: Totalitarian Geography -- Chapter Twelve -- Chapter Thirteen -- Chapter Fourteen -- Part V: Contemporary Forms of Totalitarian Representation -- Chapter Fifteen -- Chapter Sixteen -- Chapter Seventeen -- Part VI: Comparative Reflections on Totalitarian Worldviews -- Chapter Eighteen -- Chapter Nineteen -- Chapter Twenty -- Editors -- Contributors.

This collection represents a tool to broaden and deepen our geographical, institutional, and historical understanding of the term totalitarianism. Is totalitarianism only found in 'other' societies? How come, then, it emerged historically in 'ours' first? How come it developed in so many countries either in Western Europe (Italy, Germany, Portugal, and Spain) or under implicit Western forms of coercion (Latin America)? How do relations between individual(s), mass and the visual arts relate to totalitarian trends? These are among the questions this book asks about totalitarianism.The volume does not impose a 'one size fits all' interpretation, but opens new spaces for debate on the connection between the visual arts and mass-culture in totalitarian societies. From the Mediterranean to Scandinavia, from Western Europe to Latin America, from the fascism of the early 20th century to contemporary forms of totalitarian control, and from cinema to architecture, the chapters included in TotArt bring expertise, historical sensibility and political awareness to bear on this varied range of phenomena.This collection offers international contributions on visual, performing and plastic arts. The chapters range from examination of comics to study of YouTube videos and American newsreels, from Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Uruguayan cinemas to more contemporary American films and TV series, from painters and sculptors to the study of urban spaces.

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