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"Visualizing Fascism explores various ways of tracing, displaying, viewing, and interacting with fascism, examining fascism as both a global and aesthetic phenomenon during the twentieth century. It emphasizes transnational and visual qualities in order to refigure ways of establishing visual languages, articulate commentaries on the dynamic nature of national identity, and form both supportive and challenging attitudes about the global right. In particular, this volume seeks to challenge the notion that fascism is primarily a national product of Italy, Japan, and Germany; rather it seeks to locate the rise of fascism and the global right in transnational networks connected by capitalism and imperialism. The collection contains twelve essays. In the introduction, Thomas examines the rise of global and aesthetic forms of fascism, ending with the formulation of the "portable concept of fascism"-wherein fascism is defined more by its "energies" and "ideologies" than by its local manifestations. In two of the volume's early essays, Maggie Clinton and Paul D. Barclay examine the use of public imagery-modernist visuals in interwar China, and chureito, or loyal-spirit towers, in Japan-to envision and shore up support for nationalist ideologies. In her essay, Ruth Ben-Ghiat challenges the fascist objective to erase the agency of the individual in favor of the undifferentiated mass by examining images of faces taken from everyday life under fascist regimes. In another essay, Lorena Rizzo investigates fascist and imperialist entanglement in Southern Africa by examining photographs of settler colonialism in Namibia. The later essays historicize the interconnected visual and historical lineages within the Netherlands, Japan, Indonesia, Slovakia, and Spain-contexts that combine to create a common vocabulary for national identity making. In these essays, Ethan Mark, Bertrand Metton, and Nadya Bair investigate the actors and methods integral to creating a joint foundation for fascist aesthetics. In the second to last essay, Claire Zimmerman addresses the ways in which national and regional narrative building contributes to establishing various futures, accounting for the importance of understanding the implications behind elements of style and image when examining the visual rhetoric of fascism. This collection will be particularly suited to students"--

Fascism --- Fascism and culture. --- Fascist aesthetics. --- History --- Aesthetics --- Culture and fascism --- Culture --- Modern --- 20th Century

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Modernism (Art) --- -Fascism and culture --- -Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- -Art, Modernist --- Modern art --- Modernism in art --- Modernist art --- Aesthetic movement (Art) --- Art, Modern --- Aesthetics --- Culture and fascism --- Culture --- Florence (Italy) --- -Intellectual life --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- Fascism and culture --- Intellectual life. --- -Florence (Italy) --- Art, Modernist

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"Focusing on Spanish culture and society in the second half of the twentieth century, Despotic Bodies and Transgressive Bodies traverses a variety of disciplines: literature, film studies, cultural studies, feminist theory, and history, to examine crucial moments of cultural transition. Beginning with an analysis of the period of autarky - Spain's economic, cultural, and ideological isolation under Francisco Franco's regime - Pavlovic then explores the tumultuous passage to capitalism in the late 1950s and 1960s. She follows this by revisiting the complex political situation following Franco's death and points out the difficulties in Spain's transition from dictatorship to democracy. Combining a strong theoretical background with a detailed study of marginalized texts (La fiel infanteria), genres (the Spanish comedy known as the comedia sexy celtiberica), and film directors (Jesus Franco), Pavlovic reveals the construction of Spanish national identity through years of cultural tensions."--Jacket

Fascism and culture --- Arts --- Gender identity in art. --- Human body --- Popular culture --- Arts, Spanish --- Body, Human --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Mind and body --- Culture and fascism --- Culture --- Gauche divine (Group of artists) --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Occidental --- Arts, Western --- Fine arts --- Humanities --- Political aspects --- Symbolic aspects --- History --- Arts, Primitive

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"Photography and fascism in interwar Europe developed into a highly toxic and combustible formula. Particularly in concert with aggressive display techniques, the European fascists were utterly convinced of their ability to use the medium of photography to manufacture consent among their publics. Unfortunately, as we know in hindsight, they succeeded. Other dictatorial regimes in the 1930s harnessed this powerful combination of photography and exhibitions for their own odious purposes. But this book, for the first time, focuses on the particularly consequential dialectic between Germany and Italy in the early-to-mid 1930s, and within each of those countries vis-à-vis display culture. The 1930s provides a potent case study for every generation, and it is as urgent as ever in our global political environment to deeply understand the central role of visual imagery in what transpired. Photofascism demonstrates precisely how dictatorial regimes use photographic mass media, methodically and in combination with display, to persuade the public with often times highly destructive-even catastrophic-results"--

Photography --- Fascism and photography --- Fascism and motion pictures --- Exhibitions --- Political aspects --- National socialism --- National socialism and motion pictures --- Fascism --- Fascism and culture --- Culture and fascism --- Culture --- History --- Advertising. Public relations --- Film --- History of civilization --- exhibitions [events] --- fascism --- propaganda --- visuele communicatie --- beeldtaal --- anno 1930-1939 --- Germany --- Italy

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History of Italy --- History of Germany and Austria --- Documentation and information --- Libraries --- Fascism --- National socialism --- 02 <43> --- 02 <45> --- Bibliotheekwezen--Duitsland voor 1945 en na 1989 --- Bibliotheekwezen--Italië --- 02 <45> Bibliotheekwezen--Italië --- 02 <43> Bibliotheekwezen--Duitsland voor 1945 en na 1989 --- Libraries. --- National socialism. --- Fascism and culture --- Librarians --- Libraries and national socialism --- Documentation --- Public institutions --- National socialism and libraries --- Information scientists --- Library employees --- Culture and fascism --- Culture --- History