Antifascism and the avant-garde : radical documentary in the 1960s /

"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 wit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Alekseyeva, Julia (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oakand, California : University of California Press, [2025]
Subjects:	Documentary films > History and criticism. Anti-fascist movements in motion pictures. Motion pictures > Japan > History > 20th century. Motion pictures > France > History > 20th century. Documentaires > Histoire et critique. Antifascisme au cinéma. Cinéma > Japon > Histoire > 20e siècle. Cinéma > France > Histoire > 20e siècle.

Table of Contents:

1960 Japan : ANPO and antifascism in the neo-documentary
1962 France : dreamlike communism and the Left Bank in a decolonizing world
1964 Japan : the allegorical semi-documentary in an age of neonationalism
1969 France : unpleasure and radical epistemology in post-May Godard
1969 Japan : queer self-revolutions of the Art Theatre Guild.