{"product_id":"photofascism-9781350284241","title":"Photofascism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVanessa Rocco \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of Humanities \u0026amp; Fine Arts at Southern New Hampshire University, USA and former Associate Curator at the International Center of Photography (ICP), USA. She is co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s to the1960s \u003c\/i\u003e(2011)\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e Rocco organized numerous exhibitions and publications at the ICP, including\u003ci\u003e Louise Brooks and the 'New Woman' in Weimar Cinema \u003c\/i\u003e(2007), \u003ci\u003eModernist Photography: Selections from the Daniel Cowin Collection\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), and \u003ci\u003eExpanding Vision: Moholy-Nagy's Experiments of the 1920s\u003c\/i\u003e (2004)\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e Her reviews and articles about photography and exhibitions have also appeared in numerous prestigious journals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVanessa Rocco’s \u003ci\u003ePhotofascism\u003c\/i\u003e is an outstanding achievement: a theoretically sophisticated and analytically compelling exposé of the way that the Italian and German dictatorships exploited exhibition culture in order to secure mass loyalty. Today, moreover, in light of fascism’s return, Rocco’s insights have assumed an uncanny contemporary relevance. * Richard Wolin, Distinguished Professor of History and Comparative Literature, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhotofascism\u003c\/i\u003e provides a fascinating, timely, and theoretically rich analysis of the photographic exhibition as a potent piece of the twentieth-century fascist propaganda machine. Rocco has written a historically and geographically grounded study with compelling implications for contemporary society. * Dolores Flamiano, Professor, James Madison University School of Media Arts \u0026amp; Design, USA *\u003cbr\u003eRocco’s study represents a timely addition to the consolidated literature on photography as a means of seductive political persuasion and the monumental staging of power in interwar Europe. * Maria Antonella Pelizzari, Professor of Art History, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, USA *\u003cbr\u003eRocco delineates a history of the fascist exhibition spaces of spectacle in the 1930s and emphasizes just how much the mediums of photography and film have been engaged to enhance false narratives. Her extensive research provides a history for the way that photo-based imagery has been - and still is - engineered to immerse us in spectacle until we can no longer see the ideological water in which we swim. * Lisa Jaye Young, ArtPulse *\u003cbr\u003eA disturbing look into how German and Italian dictatorships of the 1930s utilized photography, film, and exhibitions—and how modern rallies aren’t much different. * Daily Beast, ‘Power of Photography’ *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Designing, Displaying, Facilitating Fascism  Chapter 1: Last Stop Before Photofascism: Activist Photo Spaces and the Exhibition of the Building Workers Unions, Berlin 1931 Chapter 2: ‘Acting on the Visitor’s Mind’: Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution, Rome 1932 Chapter 3: Nazis Ascendant: The Camera, Berlin 1933 Chapter 4: “A Fundamental Irony”: The Venice International Film Festivals 1932-36 Chapter 5: Both\/And: German and Italian Photography Exhibitions in 1936 and 1937  Epilogue: Total War, 1938-1942, and Visual Culture in the 21st century  Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407531090263,"sku":"9781350284241","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350284241.jpg?v=1730499688","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/photofascism-9781350284241","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}