The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film

Radical Projection

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de Jennifer Lynde Barker

Type: Studies
Sujet: Sociology
Mots Clés: politics, radical
Année d'édition: 2016
Editeur: Routledge
Collection: Routledge Advances in Film Studies
Langue: anglais

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Paperback • 286 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

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978-1-138-69579-5

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Description de l'ouvrage:
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.

À propos de l'auteur :
Jennifer Lynde Barker is an Assistant Professor of English and Film Studies at Bellarmine University, USA.

Revue de Presse:
"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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