| List of Illustrations | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Ch. 1 | Introduction | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | Bureaucratization, State Intervention, and the Search for a Fascist Aesthetic | 23 |
| Ch. 3 | Aesthetic Pluralism Triumphant: The State as Patron, 1931-1936 | 61 |
| Ch. 4 | Challenging the Social Boundaries of Culture | 95 |
| Ch. 5 | Fascist Mass Culture and the Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution | 128 |
| Ch. 6 | Italian Fascist Culture Wars | 177 |
| Ch. 7 | The Rise and Fall of the Fascist Gesamtkunstwerk | 222 |
| Ch. 8 | Conclusion | 254 |
| Notes | 259 |
| Bibliography | 309 |
| Index | 325 |