Dictators, democracy, and American public culture : envisioning the totalitarian enemy, 1920s-1950s
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.
Print Book, English, ©2003
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, ©2003
x, 405 pages ; 25 cm.
9780807827505, 9780807854167, 0807827509, 0807854166
50028623
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