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Book SynopsisThe contributors to
Visualizing Fascism examine the imagery and visual rhetoric of interwar fascism in East Asia, southern Africa, and Europe to explore how fascism was visualized as a global and aesthetic phenomenon.
Trade Review“In a volume of instructive and newly timely essays, we learn about the key role played by the circulation of people and the visual culture they made in constructing fascism's global imaginary of interconnectedness. From the 1920s to the 1950s, fascist visuality in Asia and Europe brought the intimacies of everyday life and the realm of mass spectacle together in a variety of forms. Moving beyond the usual subjects of futurism and Leni Riefenstahl, the volume expands the visual repertoire of the period's politicized visual field as it reintroduces readers to its contested grounds.” -- Vanessa R. Schwartz, Director, Visual Studies Research Institute, University of Southern California
“Unlike so many works that relegate the phenomenon of fascism to a few moments in the past and to an isolated number of usual suspects, this wide-ranging volume focuses on the visual but goes way beyond it to demonstrate that fascism has come in varied but contiguous forms throughout the world—and perhaps as important, threatens to do so again in our time. An absolutely stunning and pathbreaking intervention by leading scholars of fascism and modernity.” -- Takashi Fujitani, author of * Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during WWII *
"The book highlights the saliency of bridging the written and the visual and urges historians not to restrain from enriching their 'historians's craft' by listening to, reading and looking at the silence of images." -- Elena Maria Rita Rizzi * European Review of History *
"The volume has much to offer due to the geographical scope of its case studies.…
Visualizing Fascism is a welcome addition to the literature, calling for an understanding of fascism as a transnational phenomenon typified by the fluid circulation of fascist ideology and imagery." -- Mark Antliff * Journal of Visual Culture *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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
