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The aesthetics of antifascism film : radical projection / Jennifer Lynde Barker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barker, Jennifer Lynde.
- Series:
- Routledge Advances in Film Studies
- Routledge advances in film studies ; 19
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fascism in motion pictures.
- Anti-fascist movements in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Political aspects.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Aesthetics.
- World War, 1939-1945--Motion pictures and the war.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Cold War in motion pictures.
- Fascist aesthetics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (303 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 Hol
- Contents:
- The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film: Radical Projection; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Permissions; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Face-to-Face with the Angel of History; Part I: Murderers Among Us: WWII, Antifascism and Film; 2 The Swastika World and the Aesthetics of Resistance; 3 Radical Projection; 4 Great Dictators; 5 Paranoia and Pedagogy; Part II: Global Exiles During the Cold War; 6 Radical Beauty; 7 Forbidden Games; 8 Perversion and Pervasion; 9 Radical Transmissions; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-22744-X
- 0-203-09853-6
- 1-283-84171-1
- 1-136-22745-8
- 9780203098530
- OCLC:
- 821174461
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