Antifascism and the Avant-Garde : Radical Documentary in The 1960s.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alekseyeva, Julia.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2025.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Leftist filmmakers of the 1960s revolutionized the art of documentary. Often inspired by the radical art of the Soviet 1920s, filmmakers in countries like France and Japan dared to make film form a powerful weapon in the fight against fascism, weaving fiction into nonfiction and surrealism with neorealism to rupture everyday ways of being, seeing, and thinking. Through careful readings of Matsumoto Toshio, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, Agnès Varda, Hani Susumu, and others, Julia Alekseyeva shows that avant-garde documentary films of the 1960s did not strive to inoculate the viewer with the ideology of Truth but instead aimed to unveil and estrange, so that viewers might approach capitalist, imperialist, and fascist media with critical awareness. Antifascism and the Avant-Garde thus provides a transnational ecology of antifascist art that resonates profoundly with our current age.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. 1960 Japan: ANPO and Antifascism in the Neo-documentary

2. 1962 France: Dreamlike Communism and the Left Bank in a Decolonizing World

3. 1964 Japan: The Allegorical Semi-documentary in an Age of Neonationalism

4. 1969 France: Unpleasure and Radical Epistemology in Post-May Godard

5. 1969 Japan: Queer Self-Revolutions of the Art Theatre Guild

Coda

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780520415690

0520415698

OCLC:

1484072071