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The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film - Radical Projection (Paperback)
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The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film - Radical Projection (Paperback)
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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