Antifascism and the Avant-Garde - Julia Alekseyeva

Antifascism and the Avant-Garde

Radical Documentary in the 1960s
Buch | Softcover
264 Seiten
2025
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-41567-6 (ISBN)
31,15 inkl. MwSt
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.

Julia Alekseyeva is Assistant Professor of English and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and author-illustrator of the award-winning graphic memoir Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 25.2.2025
Zusatzinfo 30 b-w figures
Verlagsort Berkerley
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Tanzen / Tanzsport
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-520-41567-1 / 0520415671
ISBN-13 978-0-520-41567-6 / 9780520415676
Zustand Neuware
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