Visualizing fascism : the twentieth-century rise of the global right
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Visualizing fascism : the twentieth-century rise of the global right
Duke University Press, c2020
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Bibliography: p. [293]-315
Includes index
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Visualizing Fascism argues that fascism was not merely a domestic menace in a few European nations, but arose as a genuinely global phenomenon in the early twentieth century. Contributors use visual materials to explore fascism's populist appeal in settings around the world, including China, Japan, South Africa, Slovakia, and Spain. This visual strategy allows readers to see the transnational rise of the right as it fed off the agitated energies of modernity and mobilized shared political and aesthetic tropes. This volume also considers the postwar aftermath as antifascist art forms were depoliticized and repurposed in the West. More commonly, analyses of fascism focus on Italy and Germany alone and on institutions like fascist parties, but that approach truncates our understanding of the way fascism was indebted to colonialism and internationalism with all their attendant grievances and aspirations. Using photography, graphic arts, architecture, monuments, and film-rather than written documents alone-produces a portable concept of fascism, useful for grappling with the upsurge of the global right a century ago-and today.
Contributors. Nadya Bair, Paul D. Barclay, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Maggie Clinton, Geoff Eley, Lutz Koepnick, Ethan Mark, Bertrand Metton, Lorena Rizzo, Julia Adeney Thomas, Claire Zimmerman
Table of Contents
Introduction: A Portable Concept of Fascism / Julia Adeney Thomas 1
1. Subjects of a New Visual Order: Fascist Media in 1930s China / Maggie Clinton 21
2. Fascism Carved in Stone: Monuments to Loyal Spirits in Wartime Manchukuo / Paul D. Barclay 44
3. Nazism, Everydayness, and Spectacle: The Mass Form in Metropolitan Modernity / Geoff Eley 69
4. Five Faces of Fascism / Ruth Ben-Ghiat 94
5. Face Time with Hitler / Lutz Koepnick 111
6. Seeing through Whiteness: Late 1930s Settler Photography in Namibia under South African Rule / Lorena Rizzo 134
7. Japan's War without Pictures: Normalizing Fascism / Julia Adeney Thomas 160
8. Fascisms Seen and Unseen: The Netherlands, Japan, Indonesia, and the Relationalities of Imperial Crisis / Ethan Mark 183
9. Youth Movements, Nazism, and War: Photography and the Making of a Slovak Future in World War II (1939-1944) / Bertrand Metton 211
10. From Antifascism to Humanism: The Legacies of Robert Capa's Spanish Civil War Photography / Nadya Bair 236
11. Heedless Oblivion: Curating Architecture after World War II / Claire Zimmerman 258
Conclusion / Geoff Eley 284
Bibliography 293
Contributors 317
Index 321
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