Visualizing Fascism: The Twentieth-Century Rise of the Global Right

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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 Cover Contents Introduction: A Portable Concept of Fascism / Julia Adeney Thomas 1. Subjects of a New Visual Order: Fascist Media in 1930s China / Maggie Clinton 2. Fascism Carved in Stone: Monuments to Loyal Spirits in Wartime Manchukuo / Paul D. Barclay 3. Nazism, Everydayness, and Spectacle: The Mass Form in Metropolitan Modernity / Geoff Eley 4. Five Faces of Fascism / Ruth Ben-Ghiat 5. Face Time with Hitler / Lutz Koepnick 6. Seeing through Whiteness: Late 1930s Settler Photography in Namibia under South African Rule / Lorena Rizzo 7. Japan’s War without Pictures: Normalizing Fascism / Julia Adeney Thomas 8. Fascisms Seen and Unseen: The Netherlands, Japan, Indonesia, and the Relationalities of Imperial Crisis / Ethan Mark 9. Youth Movements, Nazism, and War: Photography and the Making of a Slovak Future in World War II (1939–1944) / Bertrand Metton 10. From Antifascism to Humanism: The Legacies of Robert Capa’s Spanish Civil War Photography / Nadya Bair 11. Heedless Oblivion: Curating Architecture after World War II / Claire Zimmerman Conclusion / Geoff Eley Bibliography Contributors Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z