Jennifer Lynde Barker is an Assistant Professor of English and Film Studies at Bellarmine University, USA.
Through a series of detailed film case histories ranging from The Great Dictator to Hiroshima mon amour to The Lives of Others, The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film: Radical Projection explores the genesis and recurrence of antifascist aesthetics as it manifests in the WWII, Cold War and Post-Wall historical periods.
1. Introduction: Face-to-Face with the Angel of History I. Murderers Among Us: WWII, Antifascism and Film 2. The Swastika World and the Aesthetics of Resistance 3. Radical Projection 4. Great Dictators 5. Paranoia and Pedagogy II. Global Exiles During the Cold War 6. Radical Beauty 7. Forbidden Games 8. Perversion and Pervasion 9. Radical Transmissions