Dictators, democracy, and American public culture : envisioning the totalitarian enemy, 1920s-1950s / Benjamin L. Alpers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alpers, Benjamin Leontief, 1965-

Series:

Cultural studies of the United States.

Cultural studies of the United States

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dictatorship.

Democracy.

Mass media--United States--Influence.

Mass media.

Public opinion--United States.

Public opinion.

Physical Description:

x, 405p ; 25cm.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 1920's through to the early years of the Cold War.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-379) and index.

ISBN:

9798890870650

0807827509

0807854166

9780807861226

0807861227

OCLC:

476236288