The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film: Radical Projection

ISBN-13: 9780415899154 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 302 str.

Jennifer Barker

Opis

Through a series of detailed film case histories ranging from The Great Dictator to Hiroshima mon amour to The Lives of Others, Radical Projection explores the genesis and recurrence of antifascist aesthetics as it manifests in the WWII, Cold War and Post-Wall historical periods.

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 resulted in a distinctive, radical aesthetic form that represents an alternate strand of post-modernism.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Face-to-Face with the Angel of History  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  II. Global Exiles During the Cold War  6. Radical Beauty  7. Forbidden Games  8. Perversion and Pervasion  9. Radical Transmissions

O autorze

Jennifer Lynde Barker is an Assistant Professor of English and Film Studies at Bellarmine University, USA.