Ruth Ben-Ghiat
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ruth Ben-Ghiat is an American historian and cultural critic. She is a scholar on fascism and authoritarian leaders. Ben-Ghiat is professor of history and Italian studies at New York University. Biography Born in the United States to an Israeli-born Sephardi father and a Scottish mother, she grew up in Pacific Palisades, California. She graduated in history at UCLA and obtained a PhD in comparative history at Brandeis University. A member of the American Historical Association since 1990, she is professor of history and Italian studies at New York University. She regularly writes for CNN, The Atlantic and The Huffington Post.
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- Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922-1945 (2001) (82)
- Envisioning Modernity: Desire and Discipline in the Italian Fascist Film (1996) (42)
- Unmaking the fascist man: masculinity, film and the transition from dictatorship (2005) (27)
- A Lesser Evil? Italian Fascism in/and the Totalitarian Equation (2004) (23)
- Fascism, Writing, and Memory: The Realist Aesthetic in Italy, 1930-1950 (1995) (21)
- The Italian colonial cinema: agendas and audiences (2003) (20)
- Italian Fascism and the Aesthetics of the 'Third Woy' (1996) (19)
- MODERNITY IS JUST OVER THERE (2006) (17)
- The Secret Histories of Roberto Benigni's Life is Beautiful (2001) (16)
- Fascist Modernities (2019) (13)
- The Italian Cinema and the Italian Working Class (2001) (9)
- Life Is Beautiful [La vita e bella] (1999) (9)
- 2. Narrating the Nation (2019) (7)
- History as it really wasn't: the myths of Italian historiography (2001) (7)
- Fascist ModernitiesItaly, 1922-1945 (2001) (7)
- Narrating the Nation (2022) (6)
- Life Is Beautiful [La vita è bella]. Produced by Elda Ferri and Gian Luigi Braschi; directed by Roberto Benigni; written by Vincenzo Cerami and Roberto Benigni. Italy. Italian and German with English subtitles. 1997; color; 122 minutes. Distributor: Miramax Films (1999) (5)
- Language and the construction of national identity in fascist Italy (1997) (5)
- Liberation: Italian Cinema and the Fascist Past, 1945–50 (1999) (4)
- Italian Fascism's Empire Cinema (2015) (3)
- Italian Universities Under Fascism (2005) (2)
- Architecture and Urbanism in Fascist Italy (1993) (1)
- Five Faces of Fascism (2020) (1)
- Reflections on Italian Nationalism and Fascism: Essays for Alexander De Grand (2010) (0)
- America is Not a Fascist State. (2021) (0)
- 6. The Wars of Fascism (2019) (0)
- 5. Conquest and Collaboration (2019) (0)
- 1. Toward a Fascist Culture (2019) (0)
- Ruth Ben-Ghiat. Review of "Memory Effects: The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing" by Dora Apel. (2004) (0)
- The work of Paul Ginsborg (2004) (0)
- Disastro! Disasters in Italy since 1860: Culture, Politics, Society Edited by John Dickie, John Foot, and Frank M. Snowden (2004) (0)
- 4. Class Dismissed (2019) (0)
- Book Review:A Strange Alliance: Aspects of Escape and Survival in Italy, 1943-1945. Roger Absalom (1994) (0)
- David Forgacs and Robert Lumley, (eds), Italian Cultural Studies. An Introduction , Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996, 368 pp., ISBN 0-19-871509-9 pbk, £14.99 (1998) (0)
- Comments (2004) (0)
- Cinema after the War: Italian Neorealism and the Transition from Fascism to Democracy (2008) (0)
- Response to Matteo Millan: Mapping Squadrist Violence (2013) (0)
- Contested Memories: Mirella Serri's I Redenti (2007) (0)
- Mapping the Modern: Rites of Spring Revisited (1998) (0)
- The Imperial Moment in Fascist Cinema (2015) (0)
- AHS volume 63 issue 6 Cover and Front matter (2008) (0)
- 3. Envisioning Modernity (2019) (0)
- Realism in transition (2017) (0)
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