The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film: Radical Projection

Through a series of detailed film case histories ranging from The Great Dictatorto Hiroshima mon amourto The Lives of Others, Radical Projectionexplores 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.