Dictators, democracy, and American public culture :envisioning the totalitarian enemy, 1920s-1950s
- 作者: Alpers, Benjamin Leontief,
- 出版: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press ©2003.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (x, 405 pages).
- 叢書名: Cultural studies of the United States
- 標題: POLITICAL SCIENCE General. , Mass media , Democracy , dictatorships. , Public opinion United States. , Beïnvloeding. , Médias , Opinion publique , General. , Mass media United States -- Influence. , Totalitarisme. , Massamedia. , Democracy. , Démocratie. , Influence. , Public opinion , POLITICAL SCIENCE , Electronic books. , Dictature. , Mass media Influence. , Opinion publique États-Unis. , democracy. , Médias États-Unis -- Influence. , Public opinion. , United States. , Dictatorship.
- ISBN: 0807861227 , 9780807861226
- ISBN: 0807827509 , 9780807827505 , 0807854166 , 9780807854167
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-379) and index. The romance of a dictator : dictatorship in American public culture, 1920s-1935 -- The totalitarian state : modern dictatorship as a new form of government, 1920s-1935 -- The disappearing dictator : declining regard for dictators amid growing fears of dictatorship, 1936-1941 -- The audience itself is the drama : dictatorship and the regimented crowd, 1936-1941 -- Dictator isms and our democracy : the rise of totalitarianism, 1936-1941 -- This is the army : the problem of the military in a democracy, 1941-1945 -- Here is Germany : understanding the Nazi enemy, 1941-1945 -- The battle of Russia : the Russian people, communism, and totalitarianism, 1941-1945 -- A boot stamping on a human face--forever : totalitarianism as nightmare in postwar America.
- 摘要: Focusing on portrayals of European dictatorships in US films, magazine and newspaper articles, books, plays, speeches and other texts, this study traces changing American understandings of dictatorship from the late 1920s through to the early years of the Cold War.
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Focusing on portrayals of Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany, and Stalin's Russia in U.S. films, magazine and newspaper articles, books, plays, speeches, and other texts, Benjamin Alpers traces changing American understandings of dictatorship from the late 1920s through the early years of the Cold War. During the early 1930s, most Americans' conception of dictatorship focused on the dictator. Whether viewed as heroic or horrific, the dictator was represented as a figure of great, masculine power and effectiveness. As the Great Depression gripped the United States, a few people--including conservative members of the press and some Hollywood filmmakers--even dared to suggest that dictatorship might be the answer to America's social problems. In the late 1930s, American explanations of dictatorship shifted focus from individual leaders to the movements that empowered them. Totalitarianism became the image against which a view of democracy emphasizing tolerance and pluralism and disparaging mass movements developed. First used to describe dictatorships of both right and left, the term "totalitarianism" fell out of use upon the U.S. entry into World War II. With the war's end and the collapse of the U.S.-Soviet alliance, however, concerns about totalitarianism lay the foundation for the emerging Cold War.
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