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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462714203321

Autore

Barker Jennifer Lynde

Titolo

The aesthetics of antifascist film : radical projection / / Jennifer Lynde Barker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-09853-6

1-283-84171-1

1-136-22745-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 p.)

Collana

Routledge advances in film studies ; ; 19

Disciplina

791.4301

Soggetti

Fascism in motion pictures

Anti-fascist movements in motion pictures

Motion pictures - Political aspects

Motion pictures - Aesthetics

World War, 1939-1945 - Motion pictures and the war

Cold War in motion pictures

Fascist aesthetics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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