Introduction: 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
Julia Adeney Thomas is Associate Professor of History at the
University of Notre Dame and author of Reconfiguring Modernity:
Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology.
Geoff Eley is Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of
Contemporary History at the University of Michigan and author of
Nazism as Fascism: Violence, Ideology, and the Ground of Consent in
Germany, 1930–1945.
“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.”
*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."
*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."
*Journal of Visual Culture*
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