summercomfort | (no subject)

Sitting in the library, pondering my proposal for the final paper, which, according to the syllabus, is a 15 page paper which "should addess a specific problem in the historiography of fascism, examining three to five significant works on the subject. A 3-5 page proposal is due at the start of week VI, accompanied by a bibliography."

Now, what I really want to write for a final paper would be the relationship between the leader and the bureaucracy in a fascist state. But since this has to be a research paper, what I really want to do would be to watch 3-5 movies on Mussolini (Amazon turned up 5, I'm sure I can find 3 of them at the film studies center) and compare, y'know, some specific aspect in regards to a specific incident or something. But this is about books, so I just checked out a bunch of books on the Anschluss. It's actually quite interesting really. All these theories made on "what is fascism". Is Nazism a fascism? Are the fascisms compatible? This fight between Mussolini and Hitler over Austria... How is it portrayed in the history books? What is Mussolini's role? What is Italy's role? How does Mussolini interact with Hitler, and does that have any bearing to their respective government and people? Focus, focus, focus.

I wish I could just watch some Mussolini movies. That'd be fun.