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The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film - Radical Projection (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,368
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The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film - Radical Projection (Hardcover): Jennifer Lynde Barker

The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film - Radical Projection (Hardcover)

Jennifer Lynde Barker

Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

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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 emigre 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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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies
Release date: October 2012
First published: 2013
Authors: Jennifer Lynde Barker
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-89915-4
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies
Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism
LSN: 0-415-89915-X
Barcode: 9780415899154

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