Fascism, Aviation and Mythical Modernity

Esposito, Fernando

Flying and the pilot were significant metaphors of fascism's mythical modernity. Fernando Esposito traces the changing meanings of these highly charged symbols from the air show in Brescia, to the sky above the trenches of the First World War to the violent ideological clashes of the interwar period.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2015-09-30

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137362988

DOI: 10.1057/9781137362995

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 419