The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film: Radical Projection: 19 (Routledge Advances in Film Studies) - Hardcover

Barker, Jennifer Lynde

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ISBN 10: 041589915X ISBN 13: 9780415899154

Verlag: Routledge, 2012

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Book by Barker Jennifer Lynde

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"Barker's magisterial treatment of 70 years of international film history traces the power of cinematic art to resist the fascinations of fascism."

--Russell Berman, Stanford University

 

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Through a series of detailed film case histories ranging from The Great Dictator to Hiroshima mon amour to The Lives of Others, The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film: Radical Projection explores the genesis and recurrence of antifascist aesthetics as it manifests in the WWII, Cold War and Post-Wall historical periods.

Emerging during a critical moment in film history―1930s/1940s Hollywood― cinematic antifascism was representative of the international nature of antifascist alliances, with the amalgam of film styles generated in émigré Hollywood during the WWII period reflecting a dialogue between an urgent political commitment to antifascism and an equally intense commitment to aesthetic complexity. Opposed to a fascist aesthetics based on homogeneity, purity and spectacle, these antifascist films project a radical beauty of distortion, heterogeneity, fragmentation and loss. By juxtaposing documentation and the modernist techniques of surrealism and expressionism, the filmmakers were able to manifest a non-totalizing work of art that still had political impact.

Drawing on insights from film and cultural studies, aesthetic and ethical philosophy, and socio-political theory, this book argues that the artistic struggles with political commitment and modernist strategies of representation during the 1930s and 40s resulted in a distinctive, radical aesthetic form that represents an alternate strand of post-modernism.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 041589915X
• ISBN 13: 9780415899154
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 302